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Publisher Graham Jarrett Associate Publisher Leslie Egan Editor Erin Sullivan Editorial Arts & Culture Editor Jessica Bryce Young Associate Editor Ashley Belanger Senior Staff Writer Billy Manes Calendar Editor Thaddeus McCollum Interns Haley Cannon, Luis Vazquez Contributors Rob Bartlett, Jenn Benner, Jeffrey C. Billman, Rob Boylan, Justin Braun, Teege Braune, Patrick Cooper, Jason Ferguson, Christopher Garcia, Matt Gorney, James Greene Jr., Scott Horn, Holly V. Kapherr, Faiyaz Kara, Seth Kubersky, Bao Le-Huu, Nick McGregor, Cameron Meier, Jeff Meyers, Dave Plotkin, Richard Reep, Steve Schneider, Yulia Tikhonova

Sometimes, we get thank you notes Billy, I just read your I-4 feature story (“Six things you should know about the I-4 Ultimate renovation before you’re caught in a jam,” March 18) in the Orlando Weekly. Let me say that unlike OrlandoWeekly.com

Advertising Senior Multimedia Account Executive Dan Winkler Multimedia Account Executives Jon Bowers, Dave Freedman, Matt Whiting, Candice Andrews, Scott Navarro Account Manager Candice Andrews Marketing and Events Marketing and Events Director Brett Blake Promotions Manager Andreina Icaza Marketing/Promotions Interns Rachel Hoyle, Emma Schledorn Promotions Coordinator Chelsea Pedersen Creative Services Creative Services Director Adam McCabe Creative Services Manager Shelby Sloan Graphic Designers Christopher Kretzer Business Business Manager Stacey Commer Office Assistant Alma Hill Circulation Circulation Manager Keith Coville Euclid Media Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Zelman Chief Operating Officers Chris Keating, Michael Wagner Chief Financial Officer Brian Painley Human Resources Director Lisa Beilstein Digital Operations Coordinator Jaime Monzon euclidmediagroup.com National Advertising: Voice Media Group 1-888-278-9866, voicemediagroup.com Orlando Weekly Inc. 16 W. Pine St. Orlando, FL 32801 orlandoweekly.com Phone 407-377-0400 Fax 407-377-0420 Orlando Weekly is published every week by Euclid Media Group Verified Audit Member Orlando Distribution Orlando Weekly is available free of charge, limited to one copy per reader.

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some of your print media competition, your article was informative, accurate and thorough. It was the best piece I’ve seen that explains the project. Thanks for collecting data, facts and even attending an I-4 info meeting – unlike some “halfassed” reporting I’ve seen on the project.

Congressman John Mica, R-Orlando, via old-fashioned, handwritten letter to the editor

COVER DESIGN BY ADAM MCCABE | ORIGINAL PHOTO OF DR. PHILLIPS CENTER BY CHRISTOPHER GARCIA

news & features

film

11 Happytown

36 The gift that keeps on giving

Senior staff writer Billy Manes resigns

It Follows puts a whole new spin on the horror genre, not to mention the horrors of teen sex

11 This Modern World

You’re apathetic Despite being a centrist with zero

36 Film Listings

party loyalty, I volunteered for a day

Cinema-oriented events to go see this week

with the Democratic party, trying to get

39 Opening in Orlando

Democrats out to vote (“Why elections

Colonial Drive’s Mr. Gold is moving on

Movies playing in theaters this week: Danny Collins, Effie Gray, Furious 7, Woman in Gold

matter: A rundown of all the evil stuff

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music

Legislature this session,” March 25).

12 Give Me Your Money Rick Scott announces his run for Senate

13 Know-It-All

Orlando Weekly purchased by Tribune Media

being pushed through the Florida To say that the overall experience

40 Alternate route

arts & culture

Mills 50 district stuns the city by renaming Mills Avenue to honor Will’s Pub

has fed my cynicism would be an

21 Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts bombed

41 Racket ball

don’t vote, you get the government you

The attack wasn’t executed with dynamite, but it’s still an explosive situation

22 No joke Powerful, polarizing Kara Walker exhibit at CFAM closes Sunday, April 5 – get there while you can

25 Live Active Cultures Visits to Trader Sam’s Grotto Grog, interactive theater experience The Republic and NBCUniversal’s Hackathon

food & drink 27 Refreshed catch A newly focused menu awaits the seafood lover in you at Red Lobster

27 Tip Jar Swine & Sons opens Friday, Caffe Positano renamed after Restaurant Impossible visit, plus more in our weekly food roundup

28 Remix Our remix of the Sidecar will get you too toasted to drive

31 Recently reviewed Short takes on restaurants we’ve visited lately

understatement. They say that if you

Exuberant and experimental, the colorful cacophony of Tune-Yards splashes Florida for the first time

deserve.

Well, congratulations. Enjoy the fruits

41 Picks This Week

of your apathy. If you were eligible to

Great live music rattles Orlando every night

vote, and didn’t ... I don’t wanna hear a

47 This Little Underground

single friggin’ word from you until 2016.

Milk Lines, Cobalt Cranes and Mantar form a stampede of promising bands

You earned it.

Kenneth Conroy, via orlandoweekly.com

calendar I am angry and embarrassed to be a

48 Selections

citizen of FloriDUH. It seems to get worse

50 The Week

as time goes by.

Florida Potter, via orlandoweekly.com

51 Down the Road

back pages 66 Free Will Astrology

Got something to add? Email feedback@orlandoweekly.com.

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First Words compiles emails, letters and comments from orlandoweekly.com. We reserve the right to edit for length, content and clarity.

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B Y B I L LY M A N E S

“I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as senior staff writer, I must put the interests of Orlando first.

Orlando needs a full-time staff writer and a full-time editorial staff, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad. To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the staff writer and the editorial staff in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues (and special issues) of peace abroad and prosperity without defecation at home. Therefore, I shall resign from the Orlando Weekly effective at noon tomorrow.”

– Former Orlando Weekly senior staff writer, Billy Manes hubris that resembles a goiter on an untold portion of my anatomy are manifold. This publication, it seems, is turning a corner of its All good things must come to my own (see story page 16), and without me, it’s end, somebody once said (Did they? – ed). Well, nothing, for one. But mostly, as a newly married for me all the good things in Orlando, even gay man, I’m not sure I care to further exist in Florida, probably already have. the startling glow of the For a decade, I have played a noggin of a bald governor part in making Happytown™ who refuses to accept that a destination wedding for my people really exist; we’re Number of years senior political deviants and hilarilike climate change! Love it or staff writer Billy Manes ously unstable commenters leave it? I’m leaving it. has worked for the alike, chest-bumping forBut I’m not leaving withOrlando Weekly in mer Florida House Speaking out fond memories. Oh, the varying capacities Keg-stand Will Weatherford, cocaine salad days of the late R-Wesley Chapel, while ’90s when I weaseled my simultaneously running my way into the Weekly’s hands through Congressman Alan Grayson’s bosom via a gig in its classified advertising luxurious locks of strangely sensual hair. department. (“He’s intelligent, but he seems It’s been a taxing and titillating road, but I’ve to lack any degree of focus,” was somedone it all for the betterthing uttered in my initial ment of humankind of the interview. That’s because Orlando variety. I’ve lived.

I was high, though, OK?).

I’ve worked. I’ve played.

The Blister and B-List colNumber of times he’s And I thought, according to umns that found me staring been threatened with my former paramour-ondown pubic hairs in public the potential of maybe, an-imaginary-yacht, Mayor bathrooms and swingers at possibly, a politician Buddy Dyer, that was all I bars and Peggy Fleming pursuing a lawsuit against had to do. (Just ask Dyer’s exat the Convention Center him because he was wives Cameron Kuhn or Lou for bolded copy to fill the so awesome. Also the Pearlman about making it in “gay hole” of that Weekly number of times someone Orlando). iteration are the stuff of legaccused him of ruining his Today, with a heavy heart, I end. The short-lived serious or her life via writing. must tender my resignation to face that accompanied my the city that I once loved with unlikely run for Mayor of a passion, but now only love in Orlando in 2005 eventualmy glorious mirrored reflection. I’m off to ly led to somebody (former editor Bob Whitby) California next week, as some of you know, but taking me seriously (I wrote about grocery the secret I’ve been keeping is that I’m off to carts! What’s with all the carts?!), and the California for good. Like Jerry Brown good. spore of a public figure was stuck beneath The reasons beyond a growing hump of a desk next to a piece of twice-chewed gum

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where it would grow into a full, toxic mold.

Seriously, though, it’s been an amazing ride, and I appreciate those of you who have taken it with me. No need to unearth the sad bits, but when you live like an open book that is dancing just for himself, the sad bits are sometimes all you have, and I am thankful to this paper and this community for carrying me through some REALLY sad bits. Also some happy ones, though! And some really scathingly political ones, too. To my fellow cast members – er, editorial staffers and the rest of the lot in the building – I wish you the best in the future. I’m off to watch a sunset that’s really a sunset, to ride a dream I never really had, to make vague statements like I always have. This town has grown so much since I showed up, a spiky gadabout in plastic pants in 1997. I take all the credit for that.

Good night. And good luck.

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1,000 Number of tears Manes is wiping up off the mat under his desk chair as he writes this

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“This is a way to help strategists think about behaviors and craft intentions.”

And how do “strategists” (marketers to you and me) use this organized data to “craft intentions” in the minds of ad viewers?

First, the agency identifies a behavior of yours that will need to change if their client is going to sell you more of their

BY DAVE PLOTKIN product. They then use the Behavioral Your life has a price tag. So does mine. Archetypes model to figure out a desirable That’s not a new concept, of course, but counter-behavior that they can influence you to adopt instead. when did it become OK? So if you buy generic or store brands to Apparently, it was 10 years ago, when General Motors suspected that defective save money, Foley says that you’re exhibparts in their Chevy Cobalt and Saturn Ion iting a “surrender” or “coping” behavior, cars were killing customers, but chose not as it reflects a tolerance for lower “badge value” brands instead of more expensive to warn drivers or issue a recall.

GM had “considered several fixes” but and self-indulgent ones.

Foley says the marketer’s goal is to simply weighed “the lead time required, cost and effectiveness” of making repairs create tension in your mind by repeatagainst the cost of settling with accident edly asking you, “Is the surrender worth it?” Their message victims’ families. That becomes: “Go ahead and means if you drive a GM buy generic bathroom car, the company has cleaner or aluminum assigned a dollar amount “Ads blunt our foil, but don’t comproto your life. perceptions of mise on this.”

Even if you don’t own a car, how does that fact An estimated 3,000 language and make you feel? What advertiser messages does it tell us about how crash-land into our logic.” companies can affect conscious minds every our human culture? single day. That’s usuWe know that forally the reason why you profit corporations are obligated to buy things you didn’t intend to buy. But “maximize shareholder value” by making even if you never purchase an advertiser’s as much money as they can, but GM’s products, you’ve probably internalized priorities reveal a corporate culture that their skewed values, since humans absorb values the profitability of its car brands broadcast messages so easily. We may feel over human life. immune to the effects of these ads, but What makes that a big, scary deal is over time they blunt our perceptions of that commercial advertisers hold infi- language and logic. The unending streams nitely greater sway over our personal of manipulative messages eventually polbehaviors than ever before. In fact, mar- lute our mental environment and clog our keters have made advancements in fields cognitive digestion. of behavioral science that other researchIn 2014, we’ll witness an unprecedented ers have overlooked. One of those areas amount of political campaign advertisis behavioral economics, the study of the ing in Florida, especially commercials psychology behind how consumers make supporting Gov. Rick Scott’s re-election. economic decisions.

These ads will serve virtually no informaIn 2011, Leo Burnett Worldwide, the tive function, but will still very likely alter Chicago-based global advertising com- the behavior of millions of Floridians. pany, created a list that classified as many You can resist these intrusions into your as 1,800 discrete human behaviors. They thought space by viewing ads critically compiled the data from survey results and instead of passively. Imagine yourself as more than 10,000 interviews. The payoff an anthropologist visiting a new democfor their effort was a ring-shaped chart racy, and note the appeals to emotion of “Behavioral Archetypes” that helps cli- (especially fear) and other logical fallacies ents identify which behaviors of yours employed. Think about where the images they want to change. and sounds were purchased or created, In a candid interview with AdAge, Leo and talk to friends and family members Burnett’s executive vice president of about what you notice in the ads and research services, Carol Foley, described whether you agree with their messages.

Conversation and community are her company’s use of the Behavioral Archetypes model to identify and change already essential to mental wellness, but as antidotes to mass-media manipulation, consumer behaviors.

“What we created was a data-informed they’re priceless. way of organizing behavior,” Foley said. feedback@orlandoweekly.com

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Colonial Drive’s Mr. Gold is moving on

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n most days, Mr. Gold was the brightest thing you could find on the stretch of Colonial Drive near Fashion Square Mall – both literally and figuratively. Dressed in a shiny gold lamé suit, a gold top hat and a shiny gold face mask, he was more than just another guy on the side of the road spinning a “Cash 4 Gold” sign. He was a hat-tipping, fingerpointing, happy-dancing sign of life on a sun-bleached stretch of Central Florida commercial strip that’s groaning with traffic 24 hours a day. People smiled when they saw Mr. Gold, and even though they couldn’t see his face through the mask he wore, they knew he was smiling back.

But over the past few weeks, Mr. Gold has rarely been spotted on his usual corner outside the Diamond Exchange at 3016 E. Colonial Drive. In his place, and on the other three corners across the street from his, are men holding signs that read “60 percent off – everything must go!”

That’s because Diamond Exchange, the business for which Mr. Gold (aka Jose Melendez) had created the Mr. Gold name (even if it wasn’t his real one) and persona, is closing its doors.

Business, says Diamond Exchange owner Virginia Ann Rodriguez, has slowed to a crawl. When she moved to this space from another location in 2010, she says, Diamond Exchange was a jewelry store, but before long, she found that customers weren’t coming to buy gold from her – they wanted to sell it to her.

“I was like, ‘No, this isn’t how it works.

You’re supposed to come in here and buy from me!’” she says. “But then I realized, it’s like, you know, survival. So I thought, how do I utilize this? Because, you know, I had to pay my bills.”

So she hired a guy to stand outside wearing a gold suit and twirl a sign advertising that she did, like a lot of businesses along Colonial, pay cash for gold. She says she went through a couple of mediocre sign spinners before Melendez came along. “When he first came, I told him, you know, it’s OK to move a little bit,” she remembers. “I told him, ‘You can be a character.’ Then, I don’t know how he came up with it, but he took off with this whole hat thing, tipping it and dancing.”

And before long, Mr. Gold became a minor Orlando celebrity. In 2012, when we put Mr. Gold on the cover of our Best

of Orlando issue, he told us that he took the job in 2010 out of desperation – he was an ex-felon, he says, and he had a hard time finding work until he got the job at the Diamond Exchange. But rather than looking at the job – hardly what most people would consider a cushy gig – as a slog, he saw it as a blessing.

“I don’t like it, I love it,” Melendez told us then. “One hundred percent. … I don’t call it routine. I call it praise and worship.”

But for Rodriguez, there just isn’t as much shine in the gold business as there used to be.

“For a season, gold was good,” she says.

“But now, you know, life is changing again.

Gold is no longer $1,800, $1,900 an ounce, it’s 11 or 12. And once somebody has sold their gold, they’ve sold their gold. It’s gone. We shook the trees.”

Unfortunately, she says, the economy in this area of Orlando is still sluggish and she’s not sure what kind of business she could open in the space to make money.

But she owns the building, and she says she’s going to take some time to try to figure it out. “I’m tired,” she says, “and it’s sad. But I don’t get a choice. Sink or swim and I refuse to sink.”

So does Mr. Gold – Rodriguez says Melendez now has a new job and has only been working for her a couple of days a week while she clears out her inventory. “He’s here today,” she says, as Mr. Gold stands outside waving to passengers who honk their horns and wave back at him. “But it’s sad. It’s weird. It’s kind of a goodbye.” – Erin Sullivan

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wenty-five years ago, when Orlando Weekly was just a pup, the publication was actually Canadian. Believe it or not, the Toronto Sun owned the weekly – called, back then, just the Weekly – and had transformed it from a humble weekly shopper (called the Orange Shopper) into the predecessor of the magazine you hold in your hands right now. According to stories published in other news media at the time, the publication was “equal parts alternative [newspaper] and shopper,” until it was rescued from limbo in 1994 by the Detroit-based Alternative Media Inc., the media company that published bonafide alternative newsweekly Detroit Metro Times.

Alternative Media Inc. co-founder Ron Williams transformed the Weekly into a dedicated alternative publication focused on local news, investigation, arts and subculture, and even after it was sold to the decidedly less alternative (and certainly less scrappy) Scranton-based media company Times-Shamrock Communications in 1999, it continued to be a legit alternative news source that racked up numerous awards for investigative reporting, arts coverage and design.

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Orlando Weekly had a good run, and now it’s time for the publication to close the book on its past and begin a new chapter.

The past 18 months have brought a lot of change to the Weekly – in 2013, TimesShamrock put the publication – along with our fellow alternative publications Metro Times, the San Antonio Current, Cleveland Scene and Baltimore City Paper – up for sale. Orlando Weekly was purchased, alongside Metro Times, the Scene and the Current, by Euclid Media Company. Only City Paper was left out of the deal, and after much anxiety and hand-wringing, that publication was finally purchased by the Sun Media Company, a subsidiary of the Tribune Company. Tribune also owns the Orlando Sentinel, so it should come as no surprise to readers to learn that Tribune, which has long coveted this mighty little alt, announced last week that it has finally negotiated a deal with Euclid to sell Orlando Weekly to the Sentinel’s parent company.

Beginning with the next issue, Orlando Weekly will be a Tribune Media property.

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The publication will be relaunched with a new staff, a new design and an all-new approach to covering Orlando. The issue you’re holding in your hands now is just a glimpse of what’s to come – the Weekly’s new owners say they plan to ditch the new streamlined design of the paper (which we have been calling a magazine for the past two years) and will return to its original unstitched, untrimmed tabloid format.

“Tribune says it’s simply a waste of money to invest in making print media look nicer,” says an insider who talked to us on condition of anonymity. “Their plan is to make their publications as costeffective as possible, and little niceties like stapled spines and full-color pages just don’t matter as much to them as making sure they get a solid return on their investment as quickly as possible.”

To that end, the new ownership will also consolidate content with other Tribune properties – film reviews will come from a syndicated source that’s shared by other Tribune properties, as will profiles of national touring acts playing in town.

Expect less coverage of cutting-edge local bands: “I overheard one of our entertainment editors say she was really offended by all the coverage the Weekly gave Total

Fuck Off Weekend,” the source tells us.

“She was shocked that was the lead music feature last week, and she was so disgusted that the F-word was all over the paper and the website, where anyone, even children, could read it. Meanwhile, she could not understand why the editors would have chosen to cover that when they could have been writing about the Ariana Grande show at the Amway instead.”

Readers can also expect to see some changes in how the Weekly approaches news. Despite our longtime reputation for covering politics and progressive issues, Tribune says its extensive research has shown that people find those subjects too dry and negative. “People would rather hear good news and see their media outlets work with elected officials rather than battle them,” says Tribune Media’s head of acquisitions Jimmy Favabean. “So moving forward, the publication’s focus will be on putting a positive spin on local stories and helping City Hall make Orlando look like a great place to live, work and play. You can expect to see more coverage of the best things Orlando has to offer – profiles of the hottest developers who’ll be bringing you new luxury apartment buildings, weekly interviews in which city and state movers and shakers tell us what they think people should be thinking about and sto-

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farewell! ries that show you just how good we have it living here in Central Florida.”

The paper’s new tagline, adopted with the blessing of the Orlandoan, will be #Orlandodoesntsuck.

The new owners are well aware that the Weekly’s current staff could never pull off such a dramatic shift in thinking – putting out the Weekly in its current format has been a labor of love for the people who work at the publication now. Our insider says that editors at the Sentinel have called it an “act of mercy” that the parent company has decided to lay off the entire staff and start new with a group of fresh-faced young bloggers and aspiring writers who aren’t tarnished and jaded by working for years in the industry.

Fortunately, Tribune has promised Weekly staffers that as long as they honor their non-compete clauses and agree not to work for any other media outlets in the region, they can pursue any other careers they choose without threat of legal action.

“We’re grateful that we’ll be able to look for work as public information officers and PR representatives … if anyone will have us,” says outgoing Weekly editor Erin Sullivan, who says she’ll try to get a job as a PR flak somewhere in the area. If that doesn’t pan out, she plans to move to Mexico where she’ll run a taco stand to raise money for dog rescue programs.

Senior staff writer Billy Manes has already planned his exit strategy, and he’s moving to California permanently after he completes his writing residency at the Djerassi Residents Artists Program (see his farewell letter in Happytown, page 11).

Our publisher, Graham Jarrett, plans to dedicate his time to his new nonprofit organization, Bootylicious, which organizes volunteers to knit booties for babies born to needy families.

Most staffers, though, were caught so off guard that they weren’t really sure what they were going to do next.

As for the staff of the Sentinel, they’ve received the news that the Weekly will soon be part of the family with a mixture of anticipation and anxiety.

“While I will admit that I have endured and enjoyed certain written felicitations from senior staff writer Billy Manes over the years, and I certainly enjoyed them, this new era of partnership sounds like malarkey to me,” said Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell when asked to comment on the situation. “However, I am no Sam Zell, so I won’t opine much further than that mass of expletives. We welcome Orlando Weekly to the fold. Perhaps we can share a Pinkberry next to a parking garage?

Welcome, newbs.” feedback@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts bombed The attack wasn’t executed with dynamite, but it’s still an explosive situation

By Je ssicka Brace M u n g

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he Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is now home to a massive new piece of graffiti art, but it’s not what you might think.

This is not a case of the Dr. Phil hopping on the street art trend, like the colorful murals found adorning businesses throughout Mills 50 and the Milk District. This isn’t a Banksy, a Mark Gmehling or even an Andrew Spear that the center has acquired.

In the early-morning hours of Saturday, March 28, the center was maliciously hit by graffiti taggers – or “bombed,” as street-art slang has it. It’s unclear whether this was a random act of spray-can violence, or if attendees of one of the shows presented on the evening of March 28 were moved to express themselves after attending a particularly affecting performance.

“When I saw the acrobats of Shen Yun give each other perfect haircuts while flying through the air, I was gobsmacked, sure,” says Eva Spell, who was in the audience for the Chinese dance troupe’s Friday-night performance. “But it didn’t make me want to spray-paint a review 10 feet high on the wall.”

Sources at the center who prefer to remain nameless, as they are not authorized to speak about this incident, suspect opera fans. Also on Friday night, Florida Opera Theatre performed Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte.

Could the gutter humor of this opera buffa have stirred up this amount of trouble?

One theory advanced by an anonymous staffer is that, rather than a reaction to Mozart’s crudities, the graffiti artists were so moved by the Thomas Thorspecken painting used by FOT in marketing materials for the show that they decided to challenge him to a “skills battle.” By the traditional terms of this form of competition, Thorspecken must now “piece” the center’s glass walls (paint his own work in the same space) within the week if he wants to be the “king” — otherwise, he’ll just be a “toy.”

Adding insult to the extensive injury, the graffitists tagged the building with the dreaded “DPAC”– an early moniker for the project which press materials distributed at the Dr. Phillips Center opening expressly forbade reporters from using. Who’s the toy now? feedback@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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No joke Powerful, polarizing Kara Walker exhibit at CFAM closes Sunday, April 5 – get there while you can

By Jessica B ryc e you n g KARA WALKER: HARPER’S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR (ANNOTATED) through April 5 | cornell fine Arts museum, Rollins college, 1000 holt Ave., Winter Park | 407-646-2526 | cfam.rollins.edu | free

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ARTWORK BY KARA WALKER, OffsET LIThOgRAPhY And sILKscREEn ThE ALfOnd cOLLEcTIOn Of cOnTEmPORARY ART, RT cORnELL fInE ARTs musEum, ROLLIns cOLLEgE, 2013.38.02 © 2015 KARA WALKER RT, W

irst thing you need to know (if you don’t already): Kara Walker is a rock star.

Tickets to a recent talk between Walker and Selma director Ava DuVernay at Los Angeles’ Broad Museum sold out in a matter of hours.

Hundreds of people waited in long lines to see her massive (75 feet long!) mammy-sphinx sculpture, “A Subtlety: Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby,” made entirely of white sugar and installed in the old Domino factory in New York, every day that the installation was open. Dozens of people also protested the work, insisting that the sphinx’s full lips, flat nose and do-rag – not to mention the surrounding small black boys, made of unrefined brown sugar – were, in the words of SUNY-Old Westbury black literature professor Nicholas Powers, “re-creating the very racism this art is supposed to critique.”

Tempers flare around Walker’s work, and they have since she first burst onto the scene in 1994 with “Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart.” (She has a penchant for incredibly long titles – there wasn’t room for the entire title of “A Subtlety” above – but they are integral to understanding her aims.) For many years she focused on large cut-paper silhouettes, or works playing with the idea of silhouette – magic lantern projections, shadow puppets – but even in her recent public art installations, Walker continues to probe the wounds of slavery, racism and sexism. With furious intent, Walker uses the stereotypes of “Negritude” to attack the violence visited upon black bodies/female bodies/ black female bodies, forcing viewers to confront the past. She couldn’t be more imperative if she took your chin in her hand and dragged you physically to face the wall, and no doubt it’s this imperious stance that has won her as many detractors as fans.

The same force simmers in the series of prints currently hanging at the Cornell, though it’s somewhat easier to overlook – at first. Walker’s “annotations” consist of her silhouettes overlaid upon a series of quaint woodcuts published by Harper’s in 1866, purporting to tell the facts of the Civil War in pretty pictures. These obvious fairy tales are demolished by Walker’s interventions.

To walk among these mammoth prints is to feel the weight of history pressing in on you. Walker’s silhouettes, silkscreened over offset lithographs from the original plates, weave in and around the stock-heroic Union and Confederate soldiers, utterly negating their puffed-up selfimportance with the brutal truth of shot-up faces and severed limbs. While mustachioed men in uniform wave their sabers, caricatured African figures toil in fields, flee through forests, die mutilated. Viewers may recoil from the viciousness of those caricatures, but their power is undeniable.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Walker compared her distortions to Zora Neale Hurston’s use of Negro dialect. “There’s always this question: ‘Is she using language in a way that is demeaning to black people? Is it a throwback for her to be using colloquial Southern speech? Is it capitulating to the demand of white audiences who want to hear black people in a particular way? Or is it speaking her truth? And is that allowed as a black artist? Are we allowed to be individuals within this sea? Or do we have to be unified in this collective?’”

Walker reclaims the power such stereotypes have to harm by exaggerating it and thrusting it in the viewer’s face.

The portfolio of 15 prints was donated to the museum by Barbara and Ted Alfond, as part of the Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art that has energized the Cornell in the past year, and the exhibit was curated by a class of Rollins students led by CFAM curator Amy Galpin. Sunday is your last chance to see these icons of intersectionality up close, and for anyone who grew up in a once-Confederate state, that’s a highly recommended experience. No joke.

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Visits to Trader Sam’s Grotto Grog at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, interactive-theater warehouse experience The Republic and NBCUniversal’s Hackathon When I arrived in Orlando, theme park queues consisted of endless boring switchbacks, and the closest thing to an immersive adult attraction was Club Juana. Today, new advances in interactive entertainment are exploding in area theme parks, bars and even a soon-to-be demolished warehouse. Last weekend I spent 24 hours in the future, getting three sneak peeks into the themed entertainment of tomorrow.

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Trader Sam’s Grotto Grog at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort

The original Trader Sam’s tiki bar in Anaheim’s Disneyland Hotel is one of my happiest places on earth, so I was overjoyed to learn an East Coast outpost was being installed in Disney’s Polynesian hotel; it was almost enough to forgive their bulldozing of the lobby’s iconic waterfalls for a shrugging statue. Apparently I’m not alone, because the new bar’s first soft opening on March 28 attracted well over 100 hopeful imbibers an hour before opening.

That’s an issue when the bar’s interior (which is themed to the hilt with kitschy décor, including castoffs from the Mr. Toad and Maelstrom rides) holds fewer than 50 guests, especially when some stay for hours, ordering all of the signature rum cocktails to experience the special effects triggered by each. I waited about two and a half hours on the outdoor tiki terrace, enjoying live music and full food and beverage service (sans effects), but others behind me waited four hours or more.

With Trader Sam’s, Disney found the same magic formula that’s made

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Universal’s Harry Potter lands so profitable: create a place were people want to stay and spend money. While paying $18 to $52 for a drink may sound insane, the price includes a generous pour in a sturdy souvenir vessel. My glass HippopotoMai-Tai mug fits well with my vintage tiki barware.

If it weren’t for the long waits, and the trek to and from Magic Kingdom parking (the hotel has cracked down on locals using their lot), this would become one of my favorite hangouts.

The Republic Fundraiser

I sailed straight from tropical Trader Sam’s to the grimly dystopian world of The Republic. The brainchild of Universal associate attraction designer Sarah Elger, this ambitious interactive experience is being installed in an 18,000-square-foot warehouse on Alden Road that’s scheduled for demolition by year’s end. In the meantime, it is being transformed into a detailed labyrinth of theatrical environments in which a semi-improvised story plays out with the audience’s participation.

The Republic opens its doors on May 15 with a beta-test run during the Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival, so Saturday night’s fundraiser party was only a taste of the attraction, which is intended to be more like Punchdrunk’s interactive Sleep No More theater production than the puzzle escape rooms that have proliferated recently. In each corner of the warehouse, performers kibitzed in character, conveying crumbs of a complex backstory that crosses Greek mythology with Platonic politics.

Over the course of the evening, I watched a couple bicker behind the bar until their fight blew up into a choreographed tango; a man standing next to me was kidnapped and dragged to a back room; a scientist showed his secret weapon for overthrowing the authorities; and a hairy guest was made over in a dress and danced with a drag queen. None of these incidents are likely to be repeated when The Republic actually opens, but they give an idea of what may lie in store.

NBCUniversal Hackathon at Portofino Bay Hotel

More than 40 teams entered last weekend’s NBCUniversal Hackathon and had 24 hours to prototype an app or product related to Universal’s properties, with many designing technology-based tools to entertain or manipulate theme park guests. The caffeine overload and sleep deprivation that participants subjected themselves to in hope of winning the $10,000 prize wasn’t dissimilar from what I’ve seen people go through during Play-in-a-Day events I’ve covered, but at least actors don’t have to deal with server attacks from Chinese hackers, as some Hackathon competitors did.

Many of the proposals sought to gamify the park-going experience, turning your vacation exploration into an online roleplaying game with quests to complete and characters to customize. Participants had access to technology from partners including Jawbone, Pixmob and Oculus, and combined them in interactive scenarios where aiming cellphones, waving wands or just walking around would activate lights and dispense free sodas (I’m not sure how the accountants will like that one). One team even used head-tracking 3-D glasses to transform the Portofino Bay’s ballroom into Hogwarts.

With senior Universal designers like T.J. Mannarino on the judging panel, and Universal Creative president Mark Woodbury spotted in attendance, it would be no surprise if some of these concepts showed up in the parks. But while I’m all for alleviating queue boredom, I want experiences that get guests’ faces out of their screens. Augmented reality and 3D-printable avatars are awesome, but I found the ideas for audio assistants that help visually impaired park guests navigate (one was prototyped from open-source components for under $40) infinitely more fascinating than yet another digital distraction. skubersky@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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Swine & Sons Provisions, the latest culinary endeavor from James and Julie Petrakis, opens Friday next door to Cask & Larder. Smoked and cured meats, made-to-order sandwiches, fresh-churned ice cream and crowlers – 32-ounce cans of beer brewed at C&L – are just some of the takeout offerings, though there will be limited seating inside available.

I-Drive 360 happenings: Cowgirls Rockbar, a “classic Americana” bar and restaurant, will feature Orlando’s only mechanical bull, coupled with “sassy” cowgirls and a Southern-style menu.

Look for a May opening. Also opening in May: Sweet Factory American Brasserie, with its celeb-endorsed couture candy, and Paramount Fine Foods, a Torontobased Middle Eastern fast-casual concept. This is their first outpost in the United States.

Spoleto, a fresh-casual Italian concept, has opened on University Boulevard near UCF. Look for locations to open soon in the Florida Mall and Winter Park.

Also on University Boulevard, Chicken Salad Chick will open its first Orlandoarea eatery sometime this summer.

Refreshed catch A newly focused menu awaits the seafood lover in you

BY FAIYAZ KARA red loBSTer 3552 E. Colonial Drive | 407-896-3657 | redlobster.com | $$$

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hen Darden sold Red Lobster last year to private equity firm Golden Gate Capital for $2.1 billion, the restaurant announced it would return to its roots – lobster, that is – in an effort to reinvigorate the brand. Turns out the menu changes instituted last year spawned a turnaround in this chain-iest of chain restaurants. How much of a turnaround? Well, I can state unequivocally that Red Lobster can stand toe-to-toe with the finest seafood eateries anywhere, and if you think I’m given to bombastic obfuscation, you wouldn’t be entirely incorrect. That said, maintaining thematic congruence with this April 1 issue of Orlando Weekly and offering a sincere commentary on this restaurant needn’t be mutually exclusive. Not in the least. So, on with the review.

First off, I can’t say how overjoyed I was to have my mother-in-law join us for dinner. It made the meal all the more … oh, there are no words, really. Anyway, a longtime favorite of hers was the lobster-artichoke dip ($9.79) and, apart from the hair extracted from the accompanying bowl of salsa – a hair we viewed

as being “good luck” – we heartily took to the starter, laughing off the follicular faux pas. Even more amusing was hearing one of the servers walk by yammering on about stomach surgery. Who knew this place could be so much fun!

Now, our server, well-informed on Red Lobster’s new direction, suggested we sample the crispy shrimp lettuce wraps ($8.99), a newish item that appeared to be quite popular amongst the dinner-jacketed men and begowned ladies seated in the modish dining room. RL’s lettuce wraps made the ones at P.F. Chang’s seem like a tired trend.

And if you’re wondering whether they still carry their signature Cheddar Bay biscuits, worry not. They’ve still got ’em, and, if you ask me, the Ravenous Pig should consider themselves lucky if their Gruyère biscuits simulate a fraction of their addictive character.

Lucky for us, it also happened to be Lobsterfest, a fact my mother-in-law seemed to be quite excited about. It’s like Christmas for lobster lovers and runs through Lobster Christmas (April 12).

Perhaps no dish exemplifies the celebratory period more than the dueling Maine lobster tails ($27.99) featuring one roasted and topped with shrimp in a creamy garlic sauce, and one baked with a crab stuffing.

Personally, I’m not big on adulterating my

Robert Irvine (yeah, that Robert Irvine) pulled one of his Restaurant Impossible stunts on Caffe Positano on Edgewater Drive. It’s now going by the name Tornatore’s Pizzeria.

lobster, but the MIL was all OMG about the dish and I wasn’t about to rain on her parade. A seafood bake ($22.49) of steamed snow crab legs paired with shrimp, bay scallops and corn on the cob roasted in a buttery garlic-white-wine broth was a throwback dish, and not in a “throw it back to the kitchen” kind of way, either. We also ordered some fresh fish: blackened mahi ($21.99), sided with rice pilaf, green beans and a Caesar salad. It was blackened, all right – blickety-blackened.

I was shocked to learn that Red Lobster didn’t employ an in-house pastry chef, but was assured desserts were prepared by some very competent off-site bakers.

I regained my composure and ordered a carrot cake ($6.29) that was sweeter than Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. The chocolate wave ($6.49), by comparison, may not have been the title of a Melvin Van Peebles movie, but it made a mother of an ending.

Now, if I may be serious: As far as chain restaurants are concerned, you could certainly do worse than the new Red Lobster.

The menu revamp is properly lobster-first and seafood-focused – a move that warrants respect because now, more than ever, Red Lobster is very much for the seafood lover in you.

The Flavor Farm Series Dinner is Friday, April 3, at American Gymkhana. Chefs Hari Pulapaka and Aarthi Sampath celebrate their Indian heritage with a five-course farm-to-table dinner, and cocktail and wine pairings come courtesy of noted mixologist Hemant Pathak and Jenneffer Pulapaka. Cost is $75 per person, or $110 with pairings and a minicocktail hour.

MORE EVENTS: Boutique winery Crosby Roamann hosts a winemaker’s dinner 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, at Cress Restaurant in DeLand.

Tickets are $75 per person … New to this year’s Brews Around the (Central Florida) Zoo event is the Tampa Bay Brewing Beer Pairing Dinner, featuring a four-course meal prepared by Disney chef Brian Lamparski. Tickets are $80 per person with proceeds going to support a future Florida Black Bear exhibit.

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brandy!), Cointreau (or Curaçao, or Grand Marnier, or triple sec) and lemon juice in equal parts; some in a 2:1:1 ratio, or even a 3:2:1. Another point of contention is sugar. Some bartenders insist the Sidecar must be served in a sugarrimmed glass, some say pffft. I’m in the pffft camp: I think sugar rims are messy (that’s how you get ants!) and unnecessary – if you want a sweeter drink, use the equal-parts recipe or just add some simple syrup. No one wants Dixie crystals dusted all down their shirtfront.

For this Remix I wanted something easy on the palate, with enough softness and sweetness that I could skip the

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First, prepare the glass: Spread the sugar on a plate, rub the lemon wedge around the rim of a coupe, then dip the wetted glass in the sugar. Combine the cognac, Cointreau and lemon juice in an ice-filled shaker, shake well, and strain into the prepared coupe.

remIxed • 2 ounces Laird’s Applejack • 1 ounce Morey Mandarincello (or Grand Marnier) • 1/2 ounce Domaine de Canton • 1 ounce fresh-squeezed Meyer lemon juice Combine the applejack, orange liqueur, ginger liqueur and lemon juice in an ice-filled shaker, shake to a 20 count, and strain into a chilled coupe. (For even more dilution and thus a slightly less alcoholic drink, serve over ice in a rocks glass.)

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ike most classic cocktails, the Sidecar has a history swirling with myriad conflicting origin tales and explanations of its name. Since I’m not planning a trip to the Library of Congress any time soon to make a ruling on what’s correct (note: “Congress’ research arm” does in fact possess a treasure trove of a collection dubbed “American Cocktail Books, 1869-1939”), I’m going to go with my gut and say the Sidecar is so-called because it is so very alcoholic that you should not be the one steering.

Much debate exists about the proportions of this cognac (originally brandy!) concoction. Some mix the cognac (or

sugar altogether. So I subbed brandy-based Laird’s Applejack for the traditional cognac (or brandy!) – Laird’s is about 75 percent apple brandy, but has a flavor reminiscent of bourbon. The Laird’s is less hot, with a lower ABV than cognac, so I bumped it up with some Domaine de Canton, a gingerand-cognac liqueur. Then I added Morey Mandarincello rather than the traditional Cointreau – it’s a Spanish tangerine liqueur that’s basically a novelty buy (sweet stuff in a cute bottle), but it worked here – and finished with Meyer lemon, rather than regular lemon juice. All of these softer, more delicate flavors combine to form a Sidecar that’s much less brash – but equally as high-proof, so you may still want to ride on the side, not in the saddle.

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Boca Tampa-based boîte is the latest to make a go of this jinx spot, and does so with intermittent success. Wonderfully crisp fried green tomatoes with pimento, tomato jam and house bacon are an impressive starter, as is the farmhouse salad with greens grown right on the walls in the resto’s “vertical garden.” Mains can be hit (pan-seared wahoo over pineapple salsa, black bean paste, celery puree) or miss (overdone and over-garlicked bistecca).

Cocktails are somewhat cloying, but desserts, thankfully, aren’t. 358 N. Park Ave., Winter Park, 407-636-7022; $$$

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Rome’s Flavours Roman husband and wife bring a small slice of the Eternal City to Winter Park with simple, rustic, full-flavored dishes. Rustic “paddle pizzas” served on floured cutting boards are just as delectable as the hearty potato soup and flank steak served over arugula. The focused menu also features a variety of salumi and al dente pastas.

Whatever you do, sample their gelatos, preferably in the form of an affogato.

124 E. Morse Blvd., Winter Park, 407-951-8039; $$

Another Broken Egg Another Broken Egg’s menu is rooted in Cajun and Creole cookery, which means flavor, flavor and more flavor. Don’t miss the fried green tomato app or the perfectly melty lobster-and-Brie omelet. What the biscuit beignets lack in lightness, they make up for with buttery richness. A full bar slings Bloody Marys and Kahlúa-spiked coffees, and the dark roast is served in earthenware crocks; this place has charm down to a science. 430 N. Orlando Ave., Winter Park, 407-790-7868; $$

The Egg and I As far as breakfast joints go, this SoDo eatery is as pedestrian as it gets. Breakfast standards and some with South-of-theBorder slants are, well, standard. Nothing particularly remarkable about the waffles, French toast, frittatas or Benedicts.

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The Meatball Shoppe Small Azalea Park eatery serves up (what else?) meatballs in six different varieties, which can be enjoyed three different ways – on top of a side (consider penne pasta, polenta or white bean ragout), “smashed” into a ciabatta roll or “alone” (over greens).

Meatballs, be they traditional Italian, spicy pork or lamb, are moist and juicy, though meals can leave you wanting more, given that just three meatballs come in an order.

Local Muse gelato and pricey but tasty mini cannoli comprise the dessert offerings. 7325 Lake Underhill Road, 407-270-6505; $

Mynt Understatedly elegant Indian joint brings standard curry house fare in the guise of haute cuisine to Hannibal Square. Flavors work for such dishes as uttapham sliders, but fancy plating makes for impractical eating. There are plenty of options on the menu, though many fall in the middling range. Tandoori Cornish hen was marred by a cakey marinade, though creamy, subtly sweet lamb pasanda made for an enjoyable meal along with flaky lacha paratha.

535 W. New England Ave., Winter Park, 407-636-7055; $$$

American Q Barbecue makes rodizio-style rounds at American Q. Buffet cuts like brisket with Texas bark and andouille sausage are Lone Star State-worthy; be wary of desiccated pork shoulder and flank steak, however.

A la carte items like Texas beef ribs and Mississippi fried catfish gratify, but hit the pocketbook hard. Service is professional and friendly but, unlike Texas de Brazil, can lag. Interesting cocktails and swine candy keep barflies buzzing. 1905 Hotel Plaza Blvd., Lake Buena Vista, 407-827-3080; $$$

Atlantic Beer & Oyster Adjacent to Boca, this beer-and-oyster bar suffers from uninspired offerings and lackadaisical, sometimes absent, service.

Bluepoint oysters, as well as those from Texas and Louisiana, are the main attraction – try the oyster shooters with horseradishinfused vodka and gazpacho – but the smoky fish dip also makes a worthy nosh alongside a beer, of which there’s a decent selection. 358 N. Park Ave., Winter Park, 407-636-7021; $$

The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar In the midst of celebrity-branded restaurants and kiosks slinging themepark kitsch, the Cowfish fills the need for inventive, delightfully weird cuisine. There’s a menu section for burgers, one for sushi, and a selection of bizarre combinations requiring a suspension of disbelief, like the Buffaloooo-shi burgushi roll: chipotle bison, fried green tomato and feta rolled in crispy tempura flakes. It works. Universal Citywalk, 6000 Universal Blvd., 407-363-8000; $$$ n

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The gift that keeps on giving It Follows puts a whole new spin on the horror genre, not to mention the horrors of teen sex

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orror films have, for the most part, run out of original ideas. Now that J-horror has become passé and mumblegore found-footage flicks have proved maddeningly resilient (and redundant), the genre has become little more than a proving ground for fledgling filmmakers who are looking for a B-movie calling card to prove their technical and stylistic chops. Unfortunately, very few of these wouldbe auteurs have the desire or talent to rise above expected genre expectations. Subtext, allegory and metaphor have all been dropped in favor of incessant call-backs to their cinematic influences. It’s a cynically transparent attempt to appeal to fanboys and goregirls in order to gain some buzz.

Even a mainstream hit like The Conjuring was just a slick retread of 50 other haunted house movies – albeit with a first-rate cast.

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With his sophomore effort, It Follows, metro Detroit native David Robert Mitchell has jumped onto the low-budget horror bandwagon and delivered a movie that is both spine-tingling and thought-provoking.

Maintaining the same patient, atmospheric approach he demonstrated in his debut, The Myth Of The American Sleepover, Mitchell reshapes tried-and-true scare conventions – teens in peril, a relentless malevolent force, jarring soundtrack – into an unexpectedly unique creepfest that’s cleverly geared to its modest production budget.

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focuses on Jay (Maika Monroe), a 19-year-old who sleeps with her new boyfriend Hugh ... then finds herself in a surreal and dangerous situation.

Knocked unconscious after their bout of backseat sex, Jay awakens to find herself strapped to a chair in an abandoned Detroit parking structure. Hugh explains that he’s passed something onto her, a supernatural STD if you will, that will now stalk and kill her if she doesn’t pass it onto someone else through sex. But there’s a catch, even then – the threat is merely delayed, as the slow-walking specter (which can look like anyone) murders the afflicted then works its way back up the chain.

Just what does it do when it catches up to you?

The film opens with a frightening scene where a pretty teenager desperately runs from the unseen force only to ... well, I won’t spoil the awful surprise.

Hugh then dumps Jay, in her underwear, onto the street outside her house and drives away.

Her sister (Lili Sepe), and a pair of friends, Yara (Olivia Luccardi) and Paul (Keir Gilchrist) – who, of course, harbors a lifelong crush – immediately step in to track Hugh down and better understand the curse. An ex-boyfriend (Daniel Zovatto looking like an indie version of Taylor Kitsch) soon joins the gang, and things spiral further into darkness.

Detroit and its inner-ring suburbs help create an atmosphere of emptiness and dread. Mitchell cleverly sets his film out of time, mixing ’80s fashion and consumer technology with contemporary vehicles and even strangely futuristic gadgets (a seashell-shaped e-reader). It’s disorienting but well-suited to the local landscape. Southeast Michigan’s perpetually gray skies seem to seep into every frame. If it reminds you of the distraught photographs of Gregory Crewdson, it’s not an accident. Mitchell has cast the suburbs as a deliberately anonymous place haunted by paranoia. Every person you see at the edges or background of the frame is a potential threat, forcing audiences to search the screen for signs of danger and immersing them in Jay’s constant state of fear.

More interestingly, Mitchell’s riffs on sex and adulthood are refreshing in their allegorical complexity. The specter that relentlessly follows those who have been cursed is more than just a physical manifestation of the old sex-ed mantra “every time you sleep with someone, you also sleep with everyone in his or her past.” Here, intercourse can simultaneously damn you and save you. But either way, you’re on your own. Parents – almost entirely absent from the film – can offer no meaningful guidance or help, further driving home the alienation and self-obsession teens experience as they struggle with adulthood.

It Follows occasionally drags, and its third act opens the door to a few more questions than the film can handle, but with its eerie circular pans and wide screen compositions, likeably naturalistic cast and Disasterpeace’s amazingly jarring synthesizer score (cementing John Carpenter’s obvious influence), the film overwhelms you with its creepy-crawly vibe. Maybe there’s hope for horror after all.

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Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen A portrait of the life of German Benedictine nun Saint Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), a visionary Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, physician, poet, naturalist, scientist and ecological activist. Wednesday, 1:30 p.m.; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach; free; 386-5064475; smponline.org.

Shine An Australian biographical drama film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach; free; 386-5064475; smponline.org. wednesday night Pitcher Show: Reservoir Dogs The aftermath of a robbery gone wrong sheds light on the motivations of three criminals and one undercover cop. Wednesday, 8 p.m.; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; free; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

Cardigan and Sneakers Pop-up Movie night: Mister Rogers and Me Don your favorite sweater and enjoy a documentary about America’s favorite neighbor.

Thursday, 6-8 p.m.; Winter Park Farmers Market, 200 W. New England Ave., Winter Park; $5 suggested donation.

The Post Impressionists: Toulouse-Lautrec Known for his radical, boldly colored paintings of the famous Moulin Rouge nightclub and dancers, Henri de ToulouseLautrec’s life was cut short due to health problems and alcoholism. This film tells his story. Friday, 1:30 p.m.; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State

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“SIX TALES OF APOCALYPTIC REVENGE. THE YEAR’S MOST FEARLESSLY FUNNY FILM.” -Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE FROM PRODUCERS

Easter Brunch and Egg Hunt With Mary Poppins Enjoy a fun-filled Easter egg hunt with special prizes, followed by a delectable buffet spread complete with carving station and fresh-squeezed juices before a special screening of the family film. Sunday, 10:30 a.m.; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $15-$225; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

Uncomfortable Brunch Presents: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom Pasolini’s parable about fascism and torture porn. Brunch included, but you might want to finish it before the movie starts.

Sunday, noon; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10; willspub.org.

Beyond the World of Interstellar Showing of Christopher Nolan’s space exploration epic with a special Q&A session, red carpet shoots and footage of orchestra rehearsals with Hans Zimmer.

7 p.m., Tuesday, multiple locations; $15; fathomevents.com.

Wild Tales This Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film is a Spanish anthology film of different stories, all themed around revenge. Ongoing; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $10; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

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Ciao! Manhattan An American avant-garde film and semibiographical tale of the 1960s counterculture and Warhol icon Edie Sedgwick. Friday, 7 p.m.; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach; free; 386-506-4475; smponline.org.

Date Night at Leu: Splendor in the Grass Enjoy a current or classic film in a beautiful garden. Pack a dinner picnic and bring seating. Food vendors on site. Friday, 8:30 p.m.; Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave.; $6; 407246-2620; leugardens.org.

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OPENING THIS WEEK Danny Collins Do you have a natural aversion to movies where everyone in the trailer is laughing good-naturedly but you can’t hear a word of what’s being said? If so, GOOD CALL! The setup to this one: Al Pacino plays an aging rock star who takes his life in a new direction after he learns that John Lennon wrote him a letter 40 years ago. Now remember what John Lennon was doing in 1975: worrying about getting kicked out of the country and crawling back to Yoko after having spent a year staggering around Los Angeles with a sanitary napkin on his head. God knows what a guy in that situation would have to say to the Al Pacino of 2015.

“Don’t make Two for the Money, mate”? (R) Effie Gray Here’s the kind of story that makes a male critic’s testicles crawl back into his body like they’re on the run from It Follows. Famed art reviewer John Ruskin starts to lose his marbles, and his wife’s biggest concern is that his condition will draw attention to the affair she’s been carrying on with – wait for it – a young artist whose work Ruskin had championed. Jesus, what a nightmare. If I ever find my mental faculties starting to go, I sure hope my last conscious realization isn’t that my significant other is having it off with a Duplass. (PG-13) Furious 7 Hey, Vin Diesel: We know how hard it can be for a guy like you. You work at your craft all your life. You shave your head every day whether you feel like it or not. And then what happens?

The role of Lex Luthor goes to Jesse Eisenberg. Hey, at least you have the Fast and the Furious franchise to fall back on. But enjoy it while you can: The law of diminishing returns is robbing this property of not only its “artistic” relevance, but its very syllables as well. Just look at how those titles are dwindling. Do you really want to be remembered as the guy who stuck around to make Fur 9? Or, God forbid, F11? That’s not even a movie; it’s a command key. Think of the reviews: “Yeah, this sucker really fills the screen.” (PG-13) Woman in Gold Before they discovered the safe, therapeutic hobby of flying passenger planes into mountain ranges, the Germans were actually kinda dicks. For instance, did you know they stole people’s paintings? Honest to God! They just up and swiped family portraits that weren’t even their property, forcing folks like Helen Mirren to spend six decades trying to get the things back.

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Alternate route Mills 50 district stuns the city by renaming Mills Avenue to honor Will’s Pub

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nocking back beers during live concerts at Will’s Pub is certainly an Orlando tradition, but as the venue approaches 20 years as one of our city’s most celebrated indie clubs, the Mills 50 district is looking to make the action downright historic.

In a stunning move that has former Orlando bands across the nation boasting, “I used to play there all the time!” and high-fiving their new drummers, the Main Street district petitioned the city to rename Mills Avenue to better represent the indie culture advocated by the hip neighborhood.

Beginning Wednesday, April 1, the stretch of road within the Mills 50 district between Colonial Drive and Virginia Drive will from this point forward be called Will’s Avenue.

“Mills 50 is committed to maintaining the unique urban charm of our neighborhood, in accordance with our mission, and there are arguably no bigger characters on the block than the ones you encounter at Will’s Pub,” says Joanne Grant, Mills 50 executive director. It does say “cool people” right there on the sign, and Mills 50 takes coolness very seriously. Just ask the Boy Kong buffalo.

Whether this major change continues to unify the eclectic community of small businesses that maintain a stronghold against the encroaching franchises of Mills Park, or simply disorients commuters trying to cut from downtown to Winter Park, has yet to be seen. But Will’s Pub owner Will Walker says he’s stoked to

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be honored in this way.

“The thing is, I’ve been here for a long time, but there are people – like Wally’s, they’ve been here for a million times longer than I have, and I respect that. But we all support one another, and Will’s is what it is,” Walker says. “So I don’t know that it makes that much sense what they’re doing, but I’m grateful that Mills 50 gets what we’re doing here.”

Expect street signs to change sometime early morning on Wednesday, April 1, for those looking to be the first to travel down Will’s Avenue. If you just plan to toast the owner, Walker will likely be present that night to celebrate (could not be confirmed as of press time) with shots of Rusty Balls (Will’s 50’s small-town alternative to Fireball) and Jameson (because a tiger doesn’t change his stripes even if the city changes his address). As usual, there will be live music, too, starting at 8 p.m., featuring the Groove Orient, Dynohunter, Bells and Robes and the Strange Trip.

Of course, with the street’s name changing, that means a new name for the Main Street District, which will now be called Will’s 50 to reflect the shift. Any artists available to help with a new logo can send inquiries through mills50.org (which will soon redirect to wills50.org, so you may want to bookmark it). It’s a lot of change, but Grant says it’s in the name of honoring creativity and longevity.

“Will’s Pub is good to me” says Pops, a beloved Mills 50 character who washes windows at Will’s Pub and occasionally peddles cheap wine on the patio. “Hey, do you like wine? I’ve got a discount you won’t believe.” feedback@orlandoweekly.com

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Racket ball Exuberant and experimental, the colorful cacophony of TuneYards splashes Florida for the first time

By NICK mCgregOr TUne-yardS with Son lux 6 p.m. Friday, April 3 | The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave. | 407-246-1419 | thebeacham.com | $21-$26

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ertain things in this world are nearly impossible to describe: what water tastes like, how déjà vu works, the smell of freshly cut grass on a wet Florida summer afternoon. In the musical realm, TuneYards fits that bill. A clattering combination of lo-fi folk, kaleidoscopic dance-pop and primitive hip-hop dreamed up in the late 2000s by native New Englander Merrill Garbus, Tune-Yards can be off-putting – that reckless singing and endlessly upbeat live show! Infectious – those propulsive Afro-Caribbean beats and that smiling self-confidence! Even downright irritating – the face paint, the riot of colors, that silly tUnE-yArDs styling! But everything Garbus produces is undeniably her own.

No one has even attempted to mimic TuneYards’ style, and if they did, they’d almost certainly fail.

On her 2009 debut, Bird-Brains, she layered field recordings, ukulele riffs, looped percussion and wordless yodels into a dense, home-recorded mish-mash that felt frighteningly, fearlessly new. On 2011’s Whokill, Garbus pushed Tune-Yards in more professional directions by adding horns, traditional recording techniques and the fluid bass lines of Nate Brenner.

On 2014’s Nikki Nack, Garbus produced the catchiest, most exuberant songs of her career (see radio single “Water Fountain”) while also tugging harder on uncomfortable lyrical strands about body image, race, environmentalism and socioeconomic privilege.

All of which makes perfect sense when you consider Garbus’ history: a degree from the ultra-liberal Smith College, where she sang in an a cappella group. Work experi-

“OK, so my cultural appropriation is offensive to you.

Let’s dig into that.”

ence puppeteering in Vermont, performing on stage in Montreal and babysitting on Martha’s Vineyard (where she recorded Bird-Brains). Her political activism in the Bay Area, which she’s called home since 2009. “I’ve always wanted to be truthful through my medium, which is music, and for me being honest means pulling from all of these things that make me up,” Garbus says. “I have to accept every part of who I am as part of how I make my music and put it into the world.”

As you can imagine, the fawning praise laid at the feet of an artist so bold has been balanced out by intense criticism. In 2012, after Whokill was named the previous year’s No. 1 album in a Village Voice poll of critics, famed rock journalist Chuck Klosterman postulated in a Grantland piece that future music fans would say, “‘Remember that one winter when we all thought Tune-Yards was supposed to be brilliant. That fucking puppeteer? Were we all high at the same time? What was wrong with us?’”

When asked whether the success of Nikki Nack – opening for indie rock demigods Arcade Fire, headlining major festivals, performing on The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon – was personally gratifying in the face of such backlash, Garbus sighs. “No, it’s terrifying, still. I wish that I could be so confident about my future and myself and turn away so easily from negative criticism. What I do feel gratified about is just that I created another album.”

Garbus adds that she’s discovered how to “let go of the fear” that comes with criticism. “There are always going to be people who really don’t like this stuff,” she laughs.

“As a perfectionist, that hurts, because I have this vision that I can get every single person in the whole wide world to really like my music. I want to have a conversation with people: ‘OK, so my cultural appropriation is offensive to you. Let’s dig into that.’ But as I get older and mature in this industry, I realize the championship is just creating more work. If anything ever gets me to stop making music, then I’ve truly lost.”

That doesn’t seem like it will happen: Garbus is currently writing and producing for other artists, including the David Byrnecurated Contemporary Color collection of elite color guard teams set to perform at the Brooklyn Art Museum this summer.

But for now, even with European tour dates and more festivals on the horizon, Garbus is excited about one thing: visiting Florida for the first time. “I have family near Orlando, but we have no history touring in Florida, much to their chagrin,” she says. “So we’re super psyched. I think my cousin George has single-handedly sold us a few hundred tickets. We’re so excited to represent.”

Great live music rattles OrlandO EVErY nIGHT

Fox Fest Pre-Party There are discount tickets for Rollins students at this party preamble to Fox Fest that features the Groove Orient, Dynohunter, Bells and Robes, and the Strange Trip.

8 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, at Will’s Pub, $10-$12

e-Turn Taking Beth McKee’s 1st Thursday Songwriter Series to the next level is explosive MC E-Turn, who joins Justin Beckler, Bob Green and Jim Seem at the monthly showcase.

8 p.m. Thursday, April 2, at the Smiling Bison, free

migrant Kids The appealing noisy wash of Austin psych band Migrant Kids crashes early during their opening set for the Bright Light Social Hour, so don’t be late to this one.

8 p.m. Friday, April 3, at the Social, $13-$15

Bill Orcutt Noise pioneer and improv maniac Bill Orcutt used to tour with Sonic Youth and Sebadoh with his wife as Harry Pussy but his critically acclaimed solo work meets a heady clash ahead with the UCF Collide Ensemble.

6 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at Magnolia Art Gallery, donations accepted

Chuck Prophet He’s collaborated with genuine articles like Lucinda Williams and smart alecks like Cake, but no matter how it’s flavored, Chuck Prophet’s tried and true brand of countryrock feels good. Give his 2014 release, Night Surfer, a spin before checking out his show.

7 p.m. Sunday, April 5, at Will’s Pub, $10-$12

Jacob Furr Steel your heart and check out sad song crooner Jacob Furr’s Trails & Traces (recorded in the famous Waits Room and released this November) before drawing up close to see the mood-rich picker live.

10 p.m. Monday, April 6, at Lil Indies, free

Immortal Technique He’s been on the road for months with Talib Kweli and Niko Is, but now politically charged rapper/MC Immortal Technique rouses crowds with CF, Hasan Salaam, Akir and Mad Illz.

7 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, at Venue 578, $22

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The King Khan & BBQ Show

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peek at some exciting young bands – Milk Lines, Cobalt Cranes and Mantar – with both the substance and the positioning to make legit waves.

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It’s nice to see the King Khan & BBQ Show (March 23, Will’s Pub) on the comeback road with their first new album in six years (Bad News Boys). Unlike the big soul explosion of the Shrines, this two-piece project is one of the rawest but brightest dots in the sprawling King Khan galaxy.

Though their savage rock & roll is good, it’s really meant to be experienced live – everything about them is. From their costumes – which make them look like screwy, perved-up superheroes in some sort of cracked universe – to their casually wild energy, it’s just a lurid spectacle, of which the full glory can only be tasted in person.

They’re proof that with enough spirit and fucked sensibility, you can probably get away with murder. And murder is exactly what they did with a largely ramshackle set that not only worked, but scorched.

Even amid all that insanity, Montreal’s Milk Lines was maybe the night’s biggest surprise. They’re new to exceptional garage-punk label In the Red, but they’re no basic garage band, noble though that can be. They’re much, much more, and you really hear it, interestingly enough, when they rein in the energy and let their impressive mood and atmosphere take the wheel.

Their intriguing, pulp-perfect cocktail of garage, psych and Western vibes is a deliciously strange trip that could be a punk

They’re proof that with enough spirit and fucked sensibility, you can probably get away with murder. channeling of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood. They’re an original and very effective combination of forces, and a band to keep a serious eye on.

At their Orlando debut (March 25, Will’s Pub), L.A.’s Cobalt Cranes proved why they’re a diamond in the Lolipop Records mine. As a robust unit with two strong singers as front presence in Tim Foley and Kate Betuel, this is a very realized band with a chiseled vision. Although it’s not entirely complete to call them a psych-rock band, it’s definitely not inaccurate. Perhaps because they’re really more than that, they don’t just coast conveniently on aura, posture or nominal style signifiers to pass.

No, their charge is led by decisive musical intent. There’s plenty of alluring murk and atmosphere in which to swim, but it’s powered by solid architecture and punctuation.

This isn’t just ambience, it’s music – stout, seductive rock music.

As reported last month in Feedback (“Music updates from around town: Wet Nurse, Hourglass Brewery, Total Fuck Off II,” Feb. 25), the Hourglass Brewery has recently entered the area live-venue derby with Saturday night shows, and the latest was a metal takeover by noted local heavy

bookers Non-Prophet Organization and F.N. Hostile (March 27). The main reason I made the trek was German twopiece Mantar, whose debut album will see a stateside release this May via excellent Philly indie label Brutal Panda Records.

Metal is not a genre that duos have conquered for many obvious reasons. Mantar doesn’t just manage the task, they ravage it by stripping the fat and attacking like a lean beast that’s all sinew, claws and teeth.

Like their approach, little about Mantar is typical metal – the Hammerhead hat on vocalist-guitarist Hanno Klaenhardt’s head will tell you that. With DNA that’s deeply stamped with punk, they’re a black blast of metal and punk that achieves both heaviness and agility. And live, they’re like coiled lightning.

There’s not usually much musical reason to voyage out to Longwood. But from the way the Hourglass is shaping up, that could soon change. It’s a clean, spacious, wellrun joint as both brewery taproom and live venue. Most importantly for shows, there’s a stage with real height – not some foothigh riser trying to pass – and dynamic LED lights.

The Hourglass stage is an immediate live boon to the north side, but it’s also worth the drive if a decent band is playing, which is a possibility if their calendar continues its roll with upcoming notables like the Cook Trio (April 18), the Mud Flappers (April 25) and the Palmettes (April 25).

So keep an eye on their Facebook page. Oh, and did I mention the shows are all ages and all free? Boom. baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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Last year, Taking Back Sunday released Happiness Is, seeming to permanently seal the fan-acclaimed decision to return to the band’s original lineup on 2011’s selftitled album by standing the test of time to become a genuine revival. So if you loved 2014’s follow-up, you likely flipped when Happiness Is: The Complete Recordings surfaced last month – a complete box set that includes unreleased B-sides and acoustic tracks and other goodies for the most devoted listeners. Now, Taking Back Sunday rounds Orlando to finish up their headlining tour in Florida, with a show this week at House of Blues, the venue that last year notoriously banned TBS opening act Letlive from playing. This week’s openers are the Menzingers and muchloved local punk band You Blew It! (who wouldn’t hurt a fly), so it should be safe to show up early. – Ashley Belanger

DANCE Orlando regularly hosts national theater and music acts, but rarely national tours for modern dance fans, who should flock to the Dr. Phillips Center for Pilobolus’ first area appearance in 19 years. The troupe was founded when three non-dancers met during the 1970s in a Dartmouth modern dance class and found ways to share their weight and intertwine their bodies in seemingly impossible ways. Ignorance of formal dance technique gave rise to their unique movement style, and they named their company after a barnyard fungus that “propels its spores with extraordinary speed, accuracy and strength.” Pilobolus’ organic, experimental approach has led to collaborations with artists outside the dance world, including Penn & Teller, Radiolab, OK Go and the MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory. You’ve probably seen Pilobolus and not realized it: They created their signature shadows for the 2007 Oscars and have been in commercials for Ford, Toyota and Hyundai. Plus, they’re in the Guinness book for squeezing 26 people into a Mini Cooper. Let’s see the ballet try that. – Genevieve Bernard

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Battle of the Seasons EVENTS Condragulations, RuPaulBots!

Whether you’re the most dedicated viewer of Logo TV’s drag queen competition or you’ve never seen it, this live show is sure to entertain. It helps if you’re familiar with drag conventions, though; we think it’ll be fun for the whole family, but Pop-pop might be startled by seeing a man who looks like a wax dummy of Joan Rivers that was left out in the sun lip-syncing “Purple Rain” or a Joey Heatherton look-

8 p.m. | Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave. | 407228-1220 | plazaliveorlando.com | $29.50-$35

with the Menzingers, You Blew It! | 6 p.m. | House of Blues, 1490 E. Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista | 407-934-2583 | hob.com/orlando | $27.50

8 p.m. | Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Walt Disney Theater | 844-513-2014 | drphillipscenter.org | $25.50-$49.50

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alike juggling knives. Orlando’s very own Ginger Minj’s Season 7 rampage through Drag U is currently playing out on our DVRs – will she? Won’t she? SHE SHOULD – so, sadly, she won’t be onstage for this tour (at least, not that we know of. But we love a surprise!). Look, these queens go to great lengths to make sure you have a good time, so you WILL have a good time, dammit. You really have no choice in the matter. – Jessica Bryce Young

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Kevin Gates We hope you “don’t get tired” this Saturday as Baton Rouge native Kevin Gates makes his way to Venue 578.

Although Gates spends a lot of time in hiphop headlines for his strong personality and outlandish social media commentary, his music is just as notable. Blending the New Orleans street sound with a melodic twist on up-north lyricism fueled by his

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master’s degree in psychology, Gates’ sound blends into a peculiar cocktail.

Sparking trends like his coined “I Don’t Get Tired” phrase, Gates’ presence in the genre is felt more and more as he continues to grow independently. Make sure you’re well rested. – Luis Vazquez 10 p.m. | Venue 578, 578 North Orange Ave. | 407-872-0066 | venue578.com | $40-$60

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While religious nuts may pretend to get up in arms over the “War on Christmas,” we hear nary a marshmallow Peep out of them over the “Defanging of Easter.” For a holiday based on cannibalism, torture and the undead – in that order – modern Easter sure is cuddly: It’s become a day devoted to fancy hats and rabbits who lay chocolate eggs (which bathroom should they use, Florida Legislature?). Uncomfortable Brunch is fixing that, not with the obvious The Passion of the Christ, but with Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Based on the Marquis de Sade’s unfinished book, the film chronicles the depravity of four Italian Fascists and the horrible things they do to a group of young boys and girls. It can be seen as a graphic metaphor for the treatment of the proletariat by the ruling classes – which is probably part of how ardent Communist Pasolini intended it – or as a fucked-up pseudo-snuff film –which is how the review boards of many countries viewed it upon its release, promptly banning it. As always, brunch is included with admission, but, uh, you may want to finish it before the film starts. – Thaddeus McCollum

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Uncomfortable Brunch Presents Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Sex-Ed Trivia Night with Planned Parenthood

6 p.m. | Stardust Video & Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road | RSVP at ppaction.org | $10

noon | Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. | willspub.org | $10

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In what promises to be the best date night ever known to man (and, well, maybe woman), Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando is opening the awkward can of worms known as sexual education – see, they don’t really teach you that babies don’t come from pee-holes in school anymore – in a groupthink team trivia format. Don’t worry, it’s not all going to be serious; PPGO is promising that some of it will be “cheeky.” Do tell! (We hope that involves anal sex, but what do we know?) At any rate, if you know the difference between a vagina and a vulva – you can’t see a vagina without a speculum, meathead – then you’re bound to score points. And let’s talk about that urethra, shall we, Mr. Franklin? Regardless, everybody wins, because each team member’s $10 donation goes toward the cause of fighting for reproductive rights for women. Sometimes sex jokes are worthwhile! – Billy Manes

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ConCerts/events Eugene Snowden’s Ten Pints of Truth 10 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

The Groove Orient, Dynohunter, Bells and Robes, the Strange Trip 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10-$12.

The Imperial’s Acoustic Soundcheck with Emily Kopp 9 pm; The Imperial at Washburn Imports, 1800 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-228-4992.

The Jonnie Morgan Band 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Ladies Night Blues Jam 8 pm; The Alley, 114 S. Park Ave., Sanford; free; 407-328-4848.

Reggae Night with Hor!zen and DJ Red I 10 pm; The Caboose, 1827 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-898-7733.

A Will Away, Capstan, Bad Year, Adult Life 7 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $10-$12; 407-999-2570.

Ladies Night 9 pm; The Green Bar, 400 E. State Road 436, Casselberry; free; 407-332-6470.

Clubs/lounges Acoustic Wednesdays 8:30 pm; Rogue Pub, 3076 Curry Ford Road; free; 407-985-3778.

Marx Open Mic Jam Night 9 pm; Belle Isle Bayou, 5180 S. Conway Road, Belle Isle; free; 407-250-6763.

Grandpa Jerry’s Open Mic 7 pm; Holly and Dolly’s, 500 E. State Road 436, Suite 1020, Casselberry; free; 407-276-2926.

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Nickel Beer Night 5-9 pm; Big Belly Brewery, 33 W. Church St.; free; 407-649-4270.

Prom Night Wednesdays 8 pm; NV Art Bar, 27 E. Pine St.; free; 407-649-0000.

Red Carpet Karaoke 8 pm; Muldoon’s Saloon, 7439 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-657-9980.

Rewind Wednesdays 10:30 pm; House of Blues, Downtown Disney West Side, Lake Buena Vista; free-$8; 407-934-2583.

Trivia Nation 8 pm; Frank and Steins, 150 S. Magnolia Ave.; free; 407-412-9230.

Trivia Night 7 pm; West End Trading Company, 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; free; 407-322-7475.

Trivia with Doug Bowser 7:30 pm; Hamburger Mary’s, 110 W. Church St.; free; 321-319-0600.

Untucked Bingo with Ginger Minj 5:30-9 pm; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; free; 407-425-7571.

Wednesday Karaoke Nights 6-9 pm; Yellow Dog Eats, 1236 Hempel Ave., Windermere; free; 727-505-4566.

Wicked 10 pm; Bullitt Bar, 33 E. Pine St.; free; 407-839-0999.

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ConCerts/events All-Star Blues Jam 8 pm; The Alley, 114 S. Park Ave., Sanford; free; 407-328-4848.

Trust No One: Songs Inspired by The X-Files 8-11 pm; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd.; free; 407-332-9636.

Clubs/lounges

The Baseball Project 8 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $15-$17; 407-246-1419.

Bar Brawl Club 9 pm; The Milk Bar, 2424 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-896-4954.

Leisure Chief 10 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Bebop Blues Jam and Voo Doo Party 8 pm; Muldoon’s Saloon, 7439 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-657-9980.

Levi Jardim 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $5.

The Smiling Bison’s First Thursday Songwriting Series With Beth McKee first Thursday of every month, 8 pm; The Smiling Bison, 745 Bennett Road; free; 407-579-0439.

Todd Allen, Kevin White, Marcos Encinias, the Florida Rooms, Whiskey Faithful 9 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $5 suggested donation; 407-270-9104.

Geek Trivia 9 pm; Cloak and Blaster, 875 Woodbury Road; free.

Guts and Glory - Pop Punk Night 11 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; free; 407-999-2570.

Indiecent Thursdays ; Independent Bar, 70 N. Orange Ave.; contact for price; 407-839-04357.

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Jazz Night 9 pm; Natura Coffee & Tea, 12078 Collegiate Way; free; 407-482-5000.

Mac and Cheese Wednesday 10 pm; Independent Bar, 70 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-839-0457.

Bearaoke 8 pm; Stonewall Bar Orlando, 741 W. Church St.; free; 407-373-0888.

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Trust No One: Songs Inspired

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Swamp Head Beer School Don’t know an IPA from an Imperial Stout? This free class will earn you Budweiser’s derision in just a few hours. Gainesville’s Swamp Head Brewery graciously donates its Stump Knocker, Cotton Mouth, Daytrippin Session, Katherine’s Passion Russian Imperial Stout and Darkwater Black IPA to get you schooled on beer styles.

6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday; World of Beer – Altamonte, 155 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; free; worldofbeer.com Motorworks Spotlight Bradenton’s Motorworks Brewery brings a selection of their best brews to the downtown World of Beer, including their INDY IPA, Bock to the Future, Pit Crew Porter and their VTwin Lager, which won a bronze medal in the Vienna Lager category at the Great American Beer Festival.

7-11 p.m. Thursday; World of Beer – Downtown Orlando, 431 E. Central Blvd.; various menu prices; worldofbeer.com

Trust No One: Songs Inspired by The X-Files Celebrate the recent announcement of a new 6-episode X-Files series with a night of musical cabaret from Lorelei Sandberg and Charlie Stevens featuring trivia, costume contests and drink specials inspired by the cult classic show. 8-11 p.m. Thursday; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; facebook.com/thegeekeasy

Farm Ale Project Beer Club The Farm Ale Project has two beers to present for the Spring edition of their Beer Club. For a $12 donation to the club, have as much as you’d like of aRauchbier Marzen and Florida Orange Witbier until the kegs run dry. Get there early for free bratwursts. 3 p.m. Saturday; St. Matthew’s Tavern, 1300 N. Mills Ave.; $12; orlandobeergarden.com

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Charli XCX June 12 at the Social Mates of State, April 10 at the Social

Tim Barry, April 22 at the Social

Five Eight, May 8 at Will’s Pub

American Aquarium, April 11 at Will’s Pub

Sage Francis, April 23 at the Social

Jenny Lewis, May 10 at the Beacham

The Avett Brothers, April 11-12 at House of Blues

Blackberry Smoke, April 25 at House of Blues

Minus the Bear, May 11 at the Social

OK Go, April 15 at the Beacham

Wilco, April 28 at Hard Rock Live

Jason Isbell, Craig Finn, May 13 at the Plaza Live

Diarrhea Planet, April 16 at Backbooth

Tyler, the Creator, April 28 at the Plaza Live

Old Crow Medicine Show, May 14 at House of Blues

Alanis Morissette, April 29 at Hard Rock Live

Whiskey Business, May 15 at Cheyenne Saloon

Crizzly, April 30 at Venue 578

Mae, May 17 at House of Blues

Adventure Club, April 17 at Venue 578

Joan Armatrading, May 2 at the Plaza Live

Seven Lions, May 17 at Venue 578

Inter Arma, April 17 at Will’s Pub

The Fleshtones, May 3 at Will’s Pub

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, April 19 at Backbooth

Boston, May 7 at Hard Rock Live

Jimmy Buffett, April 16 at Amway Center Matt Pond, April 13 at the Social Bonerama, April 15 at the Social

Bob Dylan, April 19 at the Walt Disney Theater

Natural Child, May 15 at Will’s Pub Built to Spill, May 15 at the Social

Shy Girls, May 7 at the Social

Dragonforce, Kamelot, May 23 at House of Blues

Flogging Molly, May 7 at House of Blues

Saigon Kick, May 30 at the Social

New Kids on the Block, June 5 at Amway Arena Def Leppard, Styx, Tesla, June 6 at MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa Third Eye Blind and Dashboard Confessional, June 5 at House of Blues Charli XCX, June 12 at the Social The War on Drugs, June 17 at the Beacham

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Latin Night 9 pm; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; contact for price; 407-425-7571.

Locker Room Thursdays 5 pm; Stonewall Bar Orlando, 741 W. Church St.; free; 407-373-0888.

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Mixx Thursdays with Rob Lo 10 pm; ONO Nightclub, 1 S. Orange Ave.; contact for price; 407-701-9875.

Naked Thursdays 10 pm; Shakai, 43 E. Pine St.; contact for price; 321-332-5749.

Open Mic 8 pm; Rogue Pub, 3076 Curry Ford Road; free; 407-985-3778.

Open Mic Night 8 pm; Natura Coffee & Tea, 12078 Collegiate Way; free; 407-482-5000.

album, Tales From Wyoming, on Rise Records at the end of last month. (It was produced by punk legend Bill Stevenson at the Blasting Room - pretty appropriate for the rocket men.) That’s serious, but these pop-punk kings have been more about having a good time for the past 14 years. So expect new songs and good times at the show. – Haley Cannon with Pears, the Attack and Caffiends | 9 p.m. | Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. | willspub.org | $12-$14

Open Mic with Chuck Culbertson 9 pm; Little Fish Huge Pond, 401 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; free; 407-221-1499.

225 N. Magnolia Ave.; free; 407-717-4670.

Poker Tournament 8 pm; Belle Isle Bayou, 5180 S. Conway Road, Belle Isle; free; 407-250-6763.

ConCerts/events

Re-Freshed 10 pm; Cafe Annie, 131 N. Orange Ave.; free-$5; 407-420-4041.

Retuned 10 pm; The Monkey Bar, 26 Wall Street Plaza; free; 407-481-1199.

Slowburn Thursdays with DJ Nigel John ; The Courtesy Bar, 114 N. Orange Ave.; free.

Think Tank Trivia 8 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

Words Out Loud 9-11:30 pm; Loud Hookah Lounge,

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Alphine, Pharoah & 2AM, From the Ground Up, Esco Miyagi 6 pm; West End Trading Company, 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; $11-$14; 407-322-7475.

The Bloody Jug Band CD Release Showdown, Trae Pierce & T-Stone, Multiple Me, The Jam Campaign with Groove Trunk 8:30 pm; Venue 578, 578 N. Orange Ave.; $10; 407-872-0066.

Brent Byrd 9:30 pm; Little Fish Huge Pond, 401 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; free; 407-221-1499.

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Bright Light Social Hour, Migrant Kids 8 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $13-$15; 407-246-1419.

Control This! 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Free Throw, Blis., Dryspell 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $7.

Taking Back Sunday, the Menzingers, You Blew It! 6 pm; House of Blues, Downtown Disney West Side, Lake Buena Vista; $27.50$30; 407-934-2583.

Karaoke with Cindy 7:3010 pm; American Legion Memorial Post 19, 5320 Alloway St.; free; 407-293-9515.

Open House Conspiracy 10 pm; Sandwich Bar, 2432 E. Robinson St.; $5; 407-421-1670.

Platinum Friday 4 pm; Pulse, 1912 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-3888.

Uberbahn 9 pm; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; free; 407-423-3060.

Wall Street Plaza Block Party 11 pm; Wall Street Plaza, Wall and Court streets; free; 407-849-0471.

Tune-Yards, Son Lux 6 pm; The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave.; $21-$26; 407-648-8363.

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Joshua Englert 5-8 pm; Classical guitar. Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-645-5311.

DJ BMF 10 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

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DJ Cliff T 10 pm; Aero, 60 N. Orange Ave.; free; 321-245-7730.

Friday Night Ladies Night 10 pm; Ember Bar and Restaurant, 42 W. Central Blvd.; contact for price; 407-849-5200.

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Bill Orcutt With the UCF Collide Ensemble 7 pm; The Gallery at Avalon Island, 39 S. Magnolia Ave.; donations.

The Daygos, Kingofalldrunks 9 pm; Sloppy Taco Palace, 4892 S. Kirkman Road; free; 407-574-6474.

Druid Lord, Gravewurm, Sathanus, Killing Addiction 8 pm; The Hourglass Brewery,

Saucy Yoda, Tam Tam the Sandwich Man, Sayonara, Pasty Cline 9 pm; St. Matthew’s Tavern, 1300 N. Mills Ave.; free.

(Hed) PE, Alien Ant Farm, Pinky Killa, the Adolescent Theory, Don’t Cry It’s Friday, That Guy 6 pm; West End Trading Company, 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; $22-$26; 407-322-7475.

Jason Ricci & the Bad Kind 8:30 pm; Friendly Confines, 4757 S. Orange Ave.; $15; 407-852-4800.

Kevin Gates 10 pm; Venue 578, 578 N. Orange Ave.; $40-$60; 407-872-0066.

Leisure Chief 9:30 pm; The Smiling Bison, 745 Bennett Road; free; 407-259-8036.

Orlando Rocks!: Traverser, SoulSwitch, Leaving Heaven, Blaine the Mono 7:30 pm; House of Blues, Downtown Disney West Side, Lake Buena Vista; $5; 407-934-2583.

Sammus, E-Turn, DJ RoboRob, O_Super, Alex Minor, Mag. Lo, MagiTek 7 pm; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd.; free; 407-332-9636.

Teenage Bottlerocket, Pears, the Attack, Caffiends 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $12-$14.

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DJ Jay 9 pm; The Green Bar, 400 E. State Road 436, Casselberry; free; 407-332-6470.

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Universal Studios Mardi Gras: The All-American Rejects Universal Studios, 6000 Universal Blvd.; price of admission; 407-363-8000.

Vital Remains, Vale of Pnath, Sarcophagi, Atlas, Guverra, Cave Moth 6:30 pm; The Haven, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $12-$15; 407-673-2712.

Clubs/lounges

DJ Stranger Jazz/Funk Brunch 11 am-2 pm; Ethos Vegan Kitchen, 601-B S. New York Ave., Winter Park; free; various menu prices; 407-228-3898.

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Midnight Mass Dance Party Midnight; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $4; 407-999-2570.

Ancient Sun 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

The Original Vintage Saturdays 9 pm; Vintage Lounge, 114 S. Orange Ave.; free-$10; 877-386-7346.

Chuck Prophet, Hindu Cowboys 7 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10-$12.

Saturday With the Beat 10 pm; The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave.; $10-$20; 407-648-8363.

DJ Cliff T 10 pm; Aero, 60 N. Orange Ave.; free; 321-245-7730.

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Skatter Brainz, Lewd Acts 9 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; donations accepted; 407-270-9104.

Clubs/lounges Acoustic Open Mic with Chris Dupre 9 pm; Muldoon’s Saloon, 7439 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-657-9980.

An Tobar Trivia 6 pm; An Tobar, 600 N. Lake Destiny Drive, Maitland; $5; 407-267-4044.

Bingo After Dark 10 pm; Waitiki Retro Tiki Lounge, 26 Wall Street Plaza; free; 407-481-1199.

Blues Jam hosted by Doc Williamson 5 pm; The Alley, 114 S. Park Ave., Sanford; free; 407-328-4848.

Easter Trivia 8:30 pm; World of Beer - UCF, 3402 Technological Drive, Suite 201; free; 321-235-9741.

Open Mic at the Falcon 3 pm; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; free; 407-423-3060.

Sunday Night Special with DJ Preston Rockwell III 4 pm; Olde 64, 64 N. Orange Ave.; free; 321-245-7730.

Tropical Sundays with DJ Frankie G 10 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $5-$15; 407-246-1419.

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ConCerts/events Amongst the Forgotten, Feed a Lion a Feline, Raising Cadence, Reach for the Sky, Personalities 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $5-$7.

Icarus the Owl, Raising Cadence, Levity, Boylectric 7 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $8-$10; 407-999-2570.

Jacob Furr 10 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

Jazz Meets Motown 7-10 pm; Bohemian Hotel Celebration, 700 Bloom St., Celebration; free.

New Found Glory, Turnstile, This Wild Life, Turnover 6 pm; The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave.; $21-$25; 407-648-8363.

Reggae Mondae with Hor!zen 10 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Clubs/lounges Curtis Earth Trivia 7 pm; Graffiti Junktion - Thornton Park, 900 E. Washington St.; free; 407-426-9503.

Game Night 9 pm; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; free; 407-425-7571.

Noche Latina 9 pm; Pulse, 1912 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-3888.

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White Trash Bingo with Doug Ba’aser 10 pm; Stonewall Bar Orlando, 741 W. Church St.; free; 407-373-0888.

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ConCerts/events Caravan of Thieves, Tommy Cooper of Oak Hill Drifters 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $8-$10.

The Groove Orient 10 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Immortal Technique, CF (Constant Flow), Hansan Salaam, Akir, Mad Illz 7 pm; Venue 578, 578 N. Orange Ave.; $22; 407-872-0066.

Jazz in the Courtyard with the DaVinci Jazz Experiment 7-9 pm; Cafe DaVinci, 112 W. Georgia Ave., DeLand; free; 386-873-2943.

Jazz Tuesdays 7:30 pm; The Smiling Bison, 745 Bennett Road; free; 407-898-8580.

Twisted Tuesday with Roots of Rebelion, Trial by Stone 8 pm; Red Lion Pub, 3784 Howell Branch Road, Winter Park; donations accepted; 407-677-9669.

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Dirty Bingo 9 pm; Stardust Lounge, 431 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-839-0080.

Drunken Trivia with Mike G. 8 pm; Graffiti Junktion College Park, 2401 Edgewater Drive; free; 407-377-1961.

Geek Trivia Tuesdays 7 pm; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd.; free; 407-332-9636.

Grits ‘n’ Gravy 10 pm; Independent Bar, 70 N. Orange Ave.; free-$3; 407-839-0457.

Hambingo with Miss Sammy and Carol Lee 6:30 pm; Hamburger Mary’s, 110 W. Church St.; free; 321-319-0600.

Ivanhoe Trivia Knight 6 pm; The Hammered Lamb, 1235 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-704-3200.

Korndogg’s Karaoke 10 pm; Shine, 25 Wall Street Plaza; free; 407-849-9904.

Open Mic Haven 8:30 pm; The Haven, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-673-2712.

Soul Shakedown Tuesday With DJ BMF 10 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; free.

Sound Culture with OAM 10 pm; Vixen Bar, 118 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-246-1529.

Total Request Tuesdays with DJ Deron Martin 7 pm;

Stonewall Bar Orlando, 741 W. Church St.; free; 407-373-0888.

Trivia Tuesday with Doug Ba’aser 5-9 pm; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; free; 407-425-7571.

Tuesday Trivia Night 9 pm; Yellow Dog Eats, 1236 Hempel Ave., Windermere; free; 407-296-0609.

Twisted Tuesday 9 pm; Pulse, 1912 S. Orange Ave.; contact for price; 407-649-3888.

ThEaTEr Hank Williams: Lost Highway Biographical play about the legendary country star.

Fridays, 8 pm, Saturdays, 2 & 8 pm, Sundays, 2 pm, Thursdays, 7:30 pm; IceHouse Theatre, 1100 N. Unser St., Mount Dora; $20; 352-3834616; icehousetheatre.com.

James and the Giant Peach Young orphan James flees from his two conniving aunts. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 10:15 am & noon, Saturdays-Sundays, 2 pm and Wednesdays, 10:30 am; Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $9-$15; 407447-1700; orlandoshakes.org.

Joe’s NYC Bar An interactive and improvisational theater experience that transports the audience to a bar in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Sundays, 3 pm; St. Matthew’s Tavern, 1300 N. Mills Ave.; $15-$20; wanzie.com.

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The Luna Bellum, the Mellow Relics 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

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The Lord’s Supper Creative Sanford brings to life the Lord’s Supper as portrayed in the Bible and represented in Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting. Friday, 7:30 pm and Saturday, 2 & 6 pm; The Princess Theater, 115 W. First St., Sanford; $5; 321-578-1463; princesstheatersanford.com.

The Philadelphia Story The classic satire of upper-crust romance meets tabloid journalism. Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 pm and Sundays, 2:30 pm; Mad Cow Theatre, 54 W. Church St.; $24.25-$36.75; 407-2978788; madcowtheatre.com.

Rupaul’s Drag Race: Battle of the Seasons Drag show extravaganza. Wednesday, 8 pm; The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave.; $29.50-$100; 407-2281220; plazaliveorlando.com.

Duel of Fools SAK All-Stars making it all up on the spot.

Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 pm; SAK Comedy Lab, 29 S. Orange Ave.; $12-$15; 407-648-0001; sak.com.

Gen S The best of Lab Rats perform in this improv comedy show. Wednesdays, 7:30 pm; SAK Comedy Lab, 29 S. Orange Ave.; $5; 407-648-0001; sak.com.

Mama’s Comedy Show A 90-minute improv comedy show. Fridays, Saturdays, 10 pm; Sleuths Mystery Dinner Theater, 8267 International Drive; $10; 407-363-1985; sleuths.com.

Open Mic Comedy Night Open mic comedy night. Tuesdays, 8:30 pm; The Brewery Barrel Bar, 5770 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Kissimmee; free; 407-397-2222.

Parlor Tricks by Nick Comis A 45-minute illusionist show for all ages. Thursdays, 6 pm; Sleuths Mystery Dinner Theater,

8267 International Drive; $15; 407-363-1985; sleuths.com.

Ralph Harris Live standup. Wednesday-Thursday, 8 pm, Friday, 8 & 10:30 pm and Saturday, 7:30 & 10:15 pm; Orlando Improv, 9101 International Drive. $17; 407-480-5233.

Shit Sandwich Probably the best comedy showcase in town. Show up early to grab a good seat. Saturday, 9 pm; Bull and Bush, 2408 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-896-7546.

Spacebar Comedy Showcase Underground comics perform.

Wednesdays, 10 pm; Spacebar, 2428 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-228-0804; facebook. com/spacebarcomedy.

Wackadoodledoo Comedy Show Comedy show with Ryan O’Toole, Sean Hyatt and more local comics. Thursday, 7:30 pm; Wackadoo’s, UCF Student Union, 4000 Central Florida Blvd.; free.

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Shawn Walsh: On the Radio Cabaret performance. Monday, 8 pm; The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive; $10-$25; 407-704-6261.

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danCE Baby Blue’s Revue Burlesque revue. Friday, 9:30 pm; The Venue, 511 Virginia Drive; $15$25; thevenueorlando.com.

Pilobolus Featuring the shape shifting, shadow playing dance company. Saturday, 8 pm; Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $25.50$49.50; drphillipscenter.org.

Snapshots: A Celebratory Exploration of Choice A new work that delves into everyday lives and choices that we make. Saturday, 2:30 & 7 pm; The Venue, 511 Virginia Drive; $12-$15; thevenueorlando.com.

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Easter Weekend Open House Tour the Morse Museum for free all weekend. Friday, 9:30 am-8 pm, Saturday, 9:30 am-4 pm and Sunday, 1-4 pm; Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-645-5311.

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Larry Moore Solo Exhibition Paintings and illustrations from artist Larry Moore. Saturdays, 11 am-3 pm and Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 am-5 pm; Arts on Douglas, 123 Douglas St., New Smyrna Beach; free; 386-428-1133.

ContInuIng tHIs week Amy Fleming: Shrill Relish and Other Stories A series of assemblages, dioramas and installations made with found objects and prints. Saturdays, 11 am-3 pm and TuesdaysFridays, 10 am-5 pm; Arts on Douglas, 123 Douglas St., New Smyrna Beach; free; 386-4281133; artsondouglas.net.

And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations Using the powerful medium of story quilts, this exhibit narrates nearly four centuries of African American history. MondaysSaturdays, 10 am-5 pm and Sundays, 12-5 pm; Orange County Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd.; $12; 407836-8500; thehistorycenter.org.

Art in Chambers: Points in Time. Landscapes, Emotions and Memories Paintings by Chris Robb. His work builds upon the legacy and history of

New York painterly abstraction and reflects Robb’s visceral memories of a landscape, a moment in time, or a sense of light. Mondays-Fridays, 8 am-5 pm; Winter Park City Hall, 401 S. Park Ave., Winter Park; free.

Bayeté Ross Smith: Taking Aim Art that examines race and media. Through July 28; Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, 227 E. Kennedy Blvd., Eatonville; donation suggested; 407-647-3307.

The Bride Elect – Gifts From the 1905 Wedding of Elizabeth Owens Morse Tiffany art glass, Rookwood pottery and Gorham silver. TuesdaysSaturdays, 9:30 am-4 pm and Sundays, 1-4 pm; Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; $5; 407-6455311; morsemuseum.org.

Cinematic Distractions and Dreams Art from Matthew Capaldo, Johannah O’Donnell, Adriaan Mol, Steve Garron and more. Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 am-6 pm; The Gallery at Avalon Island, 39 S. Magnolia Ave.; free.

Clyde Butcher: Nature’s Places of Spiritual Sanctuary Photographs from the Ansel Adams of the Everglades.

Through May 16; Maitland Art Center, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland; $3; 407-5392181; artandhistory.org.

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1st Thursdays: Florida Grown This event provides an opportunity for talented local artists to showcase their work.

Thursday, 6-9 pm; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; $10; 407-896-4231.

FAVO First Friday and Saturday Event featuring artwork, live music, kids activities and food trucks. Friday, 5-9 pm and Saturday, 12-5 pm; Faith Arts Village Orlando, 221 E. Colonial Drive; free; 407-2221231; faithartsvillage.com.

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Decades of Skate Part 2: 1990-2015 Skateboard art of the past 25 years. Ongoing; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free; willspub.org.

Gallery Talks Informational talks hosted by museum curators. Wednesday, 1:30-2 pm; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; price of admission; 321-363-4406; omart.org.

Insight Juried exhibition by the Orlando Camera Club.

Ongoing; Jai Gallery, 47 E. Robinson St.; free; 321-216-1646.

Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) Enlarged reproductions from an illustrated compilation of news reports about the Civil War. Through April 5; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-646-2526; rollins.edu.

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Lois Crisp Stover: In Your Face Life-casts combined with hand-built ceramics. Saturdays, 12-4 pm and Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 am-4 pm; Lake Eustis Museum of Art, 1 W. Orange Ave., Eustis; $5; 352-483-2900; lakeeustisartmuseum.org.

Maya Lin: A History of Water Sculptures, drawings and large-scale installations by the famed designer of the Vietnam War Memorial.

Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 am-4 pm and Saturdays-Sundays, 12-4 pm; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; $8; 407-896-4231; omart.org.

Of Consequence A photographic installation dealing with the human condition. Through April 16; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach; free; 386-506-4475; smponline.org.

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Peter Schreyer: Returning Home Crealde’s executive director shares his Swiss roots in a solo exhibition. Through April 5; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-671-1886; crealde.org.

Real Lives: Observations and Reflections by Dale Kennington Show by contemporary painter working in the style of New American Realism.

Through June 7; Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E. Princeton St.; $5; 407-2464278; mennellomuseum.com.

Richard Anuszkiewicz: Art of Light, Perception and Movement Simple geometric forms, usually divided into small areas. Exploiting the contrast between hues produces paintings that shimmer and vibrate.

Through April 12; Museum of Art DeLand, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand; $5; 386-7344371; moartdeland.org.

Richard Frank Watercolors: Homage Richard Frank’s unusual watercolors em-

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body meticulous technique, attention to detail and a surrealistic point of view.

Through April 5; Museum of Art DeLand, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand; $5; 386-7344371; moartdeland.org.

Richard Haas: Works on Paper Chronicling his observations of the urban landscape in a variety of media. Through April 5; Museum of Art DeLand, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand; $5; 386-7344371; moartdeland.org.

Rob Reedy: Three This exhibit takes the viewer on a virtual journey through Reedy’s solid awareness of his past and present and his interpretation of the world. Through June 30; The White Wall Gallery, 999 Douglas Ave. #2221, Altamonte Springs; free; 407-6825343; thewhitewall.com.

Selections From the Harry C. Sigman Gift of European and American Decorative Art Art glass, pottery, metalwork and furniture. Tuesdays-Thursdays, Saturdays, 9:30 am-4 pm and Sundays, 1-4 pm; Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; $5; 407-6455311; morsemuseum.org.

Structure & Perspective Examines the intersection of organic and manmade forms such as the distinction of body forms and building forms. ThursdaysSaturdays, 11 am-4 pm; Snap Space, 1013 E. Colonial Drive; free; snaporlando.com.

A Tim Burton Tribute Show An art show dedicated to the man whose unique style and vision have inspired a generation.

Featuring local and nationwide artists Robo_Ohno, Morgan Wilson, Sugar Fueled, Franklin Reyes and Josh Otterbacher, and a costume contest featuring Living Plague Customs.

Through May 1, 8 pm-2 am; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; free; 407-423-3060.

Tobi Kahn: Reverie Twenty-eight works in various media by New York artist Tobi Kahn. Through April 5; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-646-2526; rollins.edu.

UCF STEAM Exhibition Showcase of paintings, drawings, posters, sculpture, fine art prints and music compositions created through the creative collaborations of UCF STEM and Arts faculty and students. Mondays-Fridays, 10 am-5 pm; UCF Art Gallery, 12400 Aquarius Agora Drive; free; 407-823-3161.

Veterans Themed Art Show Art show sponsored by Heroes of Freedom, a local nonprofit that helps disabled veterans through housing renovation and transitional programs. Through April 11, 6 pm; free; 407-648-7060; heroesoffreedom.org.

William Crutchfield: Satirical Commentary Drawings that make a distinctive and whimsi-

cal commentary on humanity.

Through April 5; Museum of Art DeLand, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand; $5; 386-7344371; moartdeland.org.

EvEnTs Audubon Park Community Market Weekly local-vendorsonly community market held rain or shine. Features local growers, ranchers, fishermen, artisans and musicians.

Mondays, 6 pm; Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; free; 407-6233393; audubonmarket.com.

Body//Talk and IDEAS Present: The Beach//Party Beach cleanup and activity day organized by Body//Talk and IDEAS. Bring a trashbag to help pick up trash, then don a swimsuit and play a game of frisbee or volleyball. Not a dance event.

Saturday, 10 am; Lori Wilson County Park, Cocoa Beach, 1500 N. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach; free; bodytalkparty.org.

Brewmaster’s Invitational - A Festival of Beer, Food, Music & Art A beer festival featuring food from top local chefs, world-renowned artists doing live art exhibitions and live music on three stages. Saturday, 12-8 pm; Exploration Tower at Port Canaveral, 670 Dave Nisbet Drive, Cape Canaveral; $25-$40; 321-613-4805; brewmastersinvitational.com.

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Easter Hunger Project Participants will be hand-packaging a goal of 20,000 meals that will be distributed to hungry children around the world.

Friday, 6-8:15 pm; Feeding Children Everywhere, 830 S. Ronald Reagan Blvd., Unit 142, Longwood; $5 suggested donation; 888-891-6447; feed ingchildreneverywhere.com.

An Evening of Magic, Mystery and Mayhem A magic show paired with food, drinks and classy clothes. Wednesday, 7 pm; Cloak and Dapper, 1219 N. Orange Ave.; $25; 407-2506783; cloakanddapper.us.

Farm Ale Project Beer Club The Farm Ale Project presents two beers for the Spring edition of their Beer Club.

Saturday, 3 pm; St. Matthew’s Tavern, 1300 N. Mills Ave.; $12.

Flavor Farm Series: Chefs Hari Pulapaka and Aarthi Sampath A showcase of locally sourced foods prepared by the head chefs from Cress and

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American Gymkhana. Cocktail and wine pairings by Jenneffer Pulapaka and Hemant Pathak.

Friday, 6:30-11 pm; American Gymkhana, 7559 W. Sand Lake Road; $75-$110; 407-985-2900; americangymkhana.com.

Fresh: An Evening Farmers Market The Thornton Park district’s weekly farmers market. Wednesdays, 5-9 pm; Lake Eola Park, East Central Boulevard and Osceola Avenue; free; tpdfresh.com.

Orlando Farmers Market Sundays, 10 am-4 pm; Lake Eola Park, East Central Boulevard and North Eola Drive; free; orlandofarmersmarket.com.

OrlandoiX Kickoff Party Kickoff party for OrlandoiX, a five-day series of conferences and exhibitions showcasing advancements in interactive media, digital arts, and entertainment technology.

Thursday, 6 pm; Church Street Exchange, 101 S. Garland Ave.; free; orlandoix.com.

Indieversary Party Indienomicon celebrates its second anniversary with cake and presentations from Cherry Pie Games, Steamroller Studios, Nerd Nite Orlando and Red Storm Entertainment.

Friday, 7-10 pm; Canvs, 101 S. Garland Ave.; free.

Sex Trivia Night With Planned Parenthood A night of cheeky trivia and hilarious entertainment. Tuesday, 6-8 pm; Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; $10 suggested donation; 407-246-1788 ext. 105.

Motorworks Spotlight Bradenton’s Motorworks Brewery brings a selection of their best brews to downtown.

Thursday, 7-11 pm; World of Beer - Downtown Orlando, 431 E. Central Blvd.; various menu prices; worldofbeer.com.

What’s Up Downtown A free monthly event for you to learn more about developments and initiatives happening in downtown Orlando.

Thursday, 8:30 am; multiple locations; free; 407-246-3789; downtownorlando.com.

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Winter Park Farmers Market Popular weekly farmers market in heart of Winter Park.

Saturdays, 7 am-1 pm; Winter Park Farmers Market, 200 W. New England Ave., Winter Park; free; cityofwinterpark.org.

Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word Poetry and spoken word open mic. Wednesdays, 9 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364; austinscoffee.com.

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Zine-Making Workshop Learn how to make a zine and work on a contribution to the next issue of Tittie Thyme. Monday, 6 pm; 615 Ramona Lane; free; facebook.com/tittiethyme.

Dora and Diego: Let’s Explore!

The exhibit features beloved characters Dora and Diego from Nickelodeon’s hit preschool series Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go! in their own exhibit for preschoolers to explore. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 10 am-5 pm; Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St. $19; 407-514-2000; osc.org.

UCF Research Week Research Week provides workshops and events open to the community that will highlight research being conducted at UCF. Through April 2, 12-5 pm; University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd.; free; 407-8232766; researchweek.ucf.edu.

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LiTErary Di-Verse Word Spoken word open mic. Tuesdays, 8 pm; Dandelion Communitea Cafe, 618 N. Thornton Ave. free; 407362-1864; dandelion communitea.com.

Laura van den Berg Laura van den Berg reads from her newest novel, Find Me. Saturday, 1:30 pm; University Club, 841 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-425-2514.

FamiLy College Park Easter Egg Hunt Bring your family to hunt for hundreds of eggs and meet the Easter Bunny.

Saturday, 9 am; Albert Park, 2400 Edgewater Drive; free.

Hippity Hop Adventure Hop along the adventure trail to find clues, candy and prizes from the Easter Bunny. Kids receive free bunny tails to wear and can enjoy crafts, a bounce house, musical entertainment and more. SaturdaySunday; Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens, 3755 N. U.S. Highway 17-92, Sanford; $11.95-$16.50; 407-323-4450; centralfloridazoo.org.

Story Time at Leu Gardens Stories and songs for infants through 5 years of age.

Admission to the gardens is free afterward. Monday, 10-11 am; Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave.; free; 407246-2620; leugardens.org.

sporTs Orlando City vs D.C. United Major League Soccer.

Friday, 7 pm; Orlando Citrus Bowl, 1 Citrus Bowl Place; $35; 407-423-2476.

Orlando Magic vs. San Antonio Spurs Basketball. Wednesday, 7 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; contact for price; 800-745-3000; nba.com.

The Orlando Shuffle This free event features shuffleboard games and is family friendly. Equipment is provided.

Retro attire is encouraged.

Saturday, 7-9 pm; Beardall Senior Center, 800 S. Delaney Ave.; free; 321-217-3854.

Stars of Hulk Hogan’s Micro Championship Wrestling Six midget wrestlers and one surprise former WWE star battle it out in a series of matches culminating in a Royal Rumble. Not an April Fool’s joke. Wednesday, 6:30 pm; Independent Bar, 70 N. Orange Ave.; $12-$25; 407-839-0457.

Yoga in Lake Eola Park This weekly yoga group is taught by a rotating band of yogis and meets either at the amphitheatre or at the wind sculptures.

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tendencies in yourself to shrink from your devotion or violate your highest principles, I urge you to root them out. Be brave. Stay strong and true in your duty to a person or place or cause that you love.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Choconiverous” is an English slang word that’s defined as having the tendency, when eating a chocolate Easter Bunny, to bite the head off first. I recommend that you adopt this direct approach in everything you do in the coming weeks.

Don’t get bogged down with preliminaries. Don’t get sidetracked by minor details, trivial distractions or peripheral concerns. It’s your duty to swoop straight into the center of the action. Be clear about what you want and unapologetic about getting it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The American snack cake known as a Twinkie contains 68 percent air. Among its 37 other mostly worthless ingredients are sugar, water, cornstarch, the emulsifier polysorbate 60, the filler sodium stearoyl lactylate and food coloring. You can’t get a lot of nutritious value by eating it. Now let’s consider the fruit known as the watermelon. It’s 91 percent water and six percent sugar. And yet it also contains a good amount of Vitamin C, lycopene and antioxidants, all of which are healthy for you. So if you are going to eat a whole lot of nothing, watermelon is a far better nothing than a Twinkie. Let that serve as an apt metaphor for you in the coming week.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You may be as close as you have ever gotten to finding the long-lost Holy Grail – or Captain Kidd’s pirate treasure, for that matter, or Marie Antoinette’s jewels, or Tinkerbell’s magical fairy dust, or the smoking-gun evidence that Shakespeare’s plays were written by Francis Bacon. At the very least, I suspect you are ever-so-near to your personal equivalent of those precious goods. Is there anything you can do to increase your chances of actually getting it? Here’s one tip: Visualize in detail how acquiring the prize would inspire you to become even more generous and magnanimous than you already are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) People are paying attention to you in new ways. That’s what you wanted, right? You’ve been emanating subliminal signals that convey messages like “Gaze into my eternal eyes” and “Bask in the cozy glow of my crafty empathy.”

So now what? Here’s one possibility: Go to the next level. Show the even-more-interesting beauty that you’re hiding below the surface.

You may not think you’re ready to offer the gifts you have been “saving for later.” But you always think that. I dare you to reveal more of your deep secret power.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Some people believe unquestioningly in the truth and power of astrology. They imagine it’s an exact science that can unfailingly discern character and predict the future. Other people believe all astrology is nonsense. They think that everyone who uses it is deluded or stupid. I say that both of these groups are wrong. Both have a simplistic, uninformed perspective. The more correct view is that some astrology is nonsense and some is a potent psychological tool. Some of it’s based on superstition and some is rooted in a robust mythopoetic understanding of archetypes. I encourage you to employ a similar appreciation for paradox as you evaluate a certain influence that is currently making a big splash in your life. In one sense, this influence is like snake oil, and you should be skeptical about it. But in another sense, it’s good medicine that can truly heal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) According to the Biblical stories, Peter was Christ’s closest disciple, but acted like a traitor when trouble came. After Christ was arrested, in the hours before the trial, Peter denied knowing his cherished teacher three different times. His fear trumped his love, leading him to violate his sacred commitment. Is there anything remotely comparable to that scenario developing in your own sphere? If you recognize any

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Marketing experts say consumers need persistent prodding before they will open their minds to possibilities that are outside their entrenched habits. The average person has to be exposed to a new product at least eight times before it fully registers on his or her awareness. Remember this rule of thumb as you seek attention and support for your brainstorms.

Make use of the art of repetition. Not just any old boring, tedious kind of repetition, though. You’ve got to be as sincere and fresh about presenting your goodies the eighth time as you were the first.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In Cole Porter’s song “I Get a Kick Out of You,” he testifies that he gets no kick from champagne.

In fact, “Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all,” he sings. The same is true about cocaine. “I’m sure that if I took even one sniff that would bore me terrifically, too,” Porter declares. With this as your nudge, Scorpio, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to identify the titillations that no longer provide you with the pleasurable jolt they once did. Acknowledge the joys that have grown stale and the adventures whose rewards have waned.

It’s time for you to go in search of a new array of provocative fun and games.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The English writer William Wordsworth (1770-1830) wrote hundreds of poems. Among his most famous was “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” which is also known as “Daffodils.” The poem sprung from him after a walk he took with his sister around Lake Ullswater in the English Lake District. There they were delighted to find a long, thick belt of daffodils growing close to the water. In his poem, Wordsworth praises the “ten thousand” flowers that were “Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way.” If you are ever going to have your own version of a daffodil explosion that inspires a burst of creativity, it will come in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your subconscious desires and your conscious desires seem to be at odds. What you say you want is not in precise alignment with what your deep self wants. That’s why I’m worried that “Don’t! Stop!” might be close to morphing into “Don’t stop!” – or vice versa. It’s all pretty confusing. Who’s in charge here? Your false self or your true self?

Your wounded, conditioned, habit-bound personality or your wise, eternal, ever-growing soul? I’d say it’s a good time to retreat into your sanctuary and get back in touch with your primal purpose.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Sometimes you’re cool, but other times you’re hot. You veer from acting aloof and distracted to being friendly and attentive. You careen from bouts of laziness to bursts of disciplined efficiency. It seems that you’re always either building bridges or burning them, and on occasion you are building and burning them at the same time. In short, you are a master of vacillation and a slippery lover of the in-between. When you’re not completely off-target and out of touch, you’ve got a knack for wildguessing the future and seeing through the false appearances that everyone else regards as the gospel truth. I, for one, am thoroughly entertained!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) How can you ripen the initiatives you have set in motion in recent weeks? Of the good new trends you have launched, which can you now install as permanent enhancements in your daily rhythm? Is there anything you might do to cash in on the quantum leaps that have occurred, maybe even figure out a way to make money from them? It’s time for you to shift from being lyrically dreamy to fiercely practical. You’re ready to convert lucky breaks into enduring opportunities. ●

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You can meet Bruiser at orange County animal Services, 2769 Conroy Road, 407-396-3111, ocnetpets.com.

B Y D A N S AVA G E I think my husband is addicted to porn. I find porn in his browser history almost every single day. He says I’m the only one he wants, but I find that hard to believe knowing he watches nonstop porn before fucking me. He also parties every time he goes on a business trip. Needless to say, I also suspect he cheats. He says he would never cheat on me because he “doesn’t need to.” But what does that mean? I think he is a liar. Every time I even try to bring anything up with him, it is flung back in my face because I cheated on him. He has the ultimate trump card. In his eyes, he can do no wrong because it will never be as bad as me having slept with someone else early in our relationship.

Anyway, my question is mostly related to porn: Why does he watch it? I feel as though I am not enough. I am 29 and attractive. What should I do?

Wife Is Feeling Entirely Yucky

I have no way of knowing exactly what your husband means by “doesn’t need to [cheat],” but here’s the best-case scenario: You’re his only sex partner, he’s totally into you, but like all humans, he’s wired to desire a little variety and some novelty. No one is “enough” for anyone, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar. Which is not to say that everyone cheats or that cheating is OK, but cheating is common enough that forgiving an isolated infidelity should be our default setting, not immediately lawyering up and filing for divorce. (And truly forgiving someone for cheating means not flinging it in her face during disputes.)

Back to the best-case scenario: Your husband wants to have sex with other people (and so do you) but he doesn’t (and neither do you). Instead of cheating, your husband scratches that variety itch with porn. He pops into his favorite sites once or twice day, just like millions of other people, but he’s not cheating on you. (Unless you define viewing porn as cheating – in which case, good luck finding a man who won’t cheat on you.) I would advise you, again, to stop scouring his browser history for evidence of what you already know to be true – your husband is attracted to other people and sometimes looks at porn – and make up your mind to enjoy the effect porn has on your husband, i.e., it revs him up and stokes his desire for you.

Now here’s the worst-case scenario: Your husband is cheating on you, perhaps during those business trips, and “doesn’t need to [cheat]” was an insincere blandishment. But absent some other compelling evidence of cheating – incriminating text messages, mysterious credit-card charges, brand-new STIs – you’re just going to have to take him at his word.

I have a question about the price of admission.

I am a male in an eight-year het relationship. The sex is unquestionably amazing. The thing is, my girlfriend made it clear at the beginning of our relationship that blowjobs were not gonna happen often. She’s done it a few times over the years, but I could see her heart wasn’t really in it. I love going down on her, but she only tolerates it on the way to penetrative sex. She says this is not open for debate, but I would like to talk about why she doesn’t like it. She’s said I don’t have an unattractive penis or anything like that, but the conversation quickly devolves into: “If you wanted blowjobs, you

should’ve picked someone else.” I feel like we’re missing out on something that could be great.

Wanting Into Some Head

Pick someone else, WISH, but only if getting oral back in your life is more important to you than having this particular girlfriend in your life. She was up-front about her disinterest in oral sex – maybe she had early and unpleasant/traumatic experiences with oral, maybe she tried it and doesn’t like it – and just getting her to talk about it is unlikely to result in long sessions of passionate and mutual oral sex.

I’m 31 and have been with my husband for eight years, married last year, everything’s great – sex life included. But I have started a flirtation with a guy who lives next door. He can see into our kitchen, and I caught him watching me one day, and this was a huge turn-on for me. Now I wear sexy clothes when I’m home alone, and we stare at each other longingly. Sounds weird, I know, but it gets me so hot that sometimes I have to leave the room to masturbate! If anything, this has improved my sex life with my husband, as I feel sexier than ever.

But my real worry is this: Am I being unfaithful?

I’m really guilt-tripping myself about it. But then I think, what am I doing wrong? I’ve never even spoken to the “other man,” I’m in my own home, and I don’t intend to sleep with the neighbor. Is it possible to enjoy this flirtation in a way that I don’t feel like I’m betraying my husband? Is it risky?

Wondering If Next-Door Observer Wounds Spouse

Let’s say you went to the beach to lie out because you get a secret thrill from getting checked out, and then you took that sexual energy home and plowed it into your husband. That wouldn’t be a problem. Strangers at the beach make you feel attractive, feeling attractive makes you horny, feeling horny makes you wanna fuck the shit out of your husband. Everybody wins.

However, you’re not going to see the same people at the beach again, but your neighbor lives right next door. What happens when you finally and inevitably meet him face-to-face? Hopefully nothing, but the odds of something are much higher. And running into your neighbor and not being able to resist the temptation is not the only risk you’re running: You don’t know anything about this guy. Your innocent flirtation could be his dangerous obsession – and one day, you could wake up to find him standing at the foot of your bed.

But perhaps the minimal risks – you should be able to keep your hands off him, he’s unlikely to show up at the foot of your bed – are worth an improved sex life with your husband. This whole thing might seem less like “cheating lite” if you could tell your husband about how much you enjoy teasing the neighbor and how hot it makes you – for your husband. Then instead of retreating to masturbate alone in another room after showing off in the kitchen, you can retire to your bedroom and fuck the shit out of your waiting husband.

On the Lovecast, how to talk to your kids about sex with Amy Lang: savagelovecast.com.

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Legal/Public Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION, FILE NO. 2015-CP66 IN RE: ESTATE OF JOSEPHINE ROMAGNOLI, Deceased, NOTICE TO CREDITORS The administration of the Estate of Josephine Romagnoli, deceased, whose date of death was November 17, 2014, and whose Social Security Number is 120-14-7868, is pending in the Circuit Court for Orange County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801.

The names and addresses of the Personal Representatives and the Personal Representatives’ attorneys are set forth below.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court WITHIN THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT SO FILED WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is 3/25/15. /s/ Hollis F. Russell, Esq. Attorney for the Petitioner Florida Bar No. 313165 Ackerman, Levine, Cullen, Brickman & Limmer, LLP 1010 Northern Blvd., Suite 400 Great Neck, NY 11021 (516) 829-6900. /s/ Edo Romagnoli,Petitioner 6321 Great Water Drive Windermere, FL 34786. /s/Barbara Mandel, Petitioner 76-29 267th Street New Hyde Park, NY 11040. /s/ Robert C. Romagnoli, Petitioner 6321 Great Water Drive Windermere, FL 34786.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION STATE OF FLORIDA, OFFICE OF FINANCIAL REGULATION, FRIENDLY MART OF APOPKA AND ANGIE BELOT, PRESIDENT, Administrative Proceeding Docket No. 54245Friendly Mart of Apopka and Angie Belot, President, 215 East Main Street, Apopka, Florida 32703. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an Administrative Complaint (with Notice of Rights) has been filed against you by the State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation for failure to comply with certain requirements of Chapter 560, Florida Statutes. As such, your written defenses, if any, must be received at the address provided below on or before April 17, 2015.FAILURE TO RESPOND AS PRESCRIBED will result in a default entered against you regarding the allegations and penalties contained in the Administrative Complaint, including but not limited to, a total administrative fine imposed of $41,000. A copy of the Administrative Complaint may be obtained from, and your response must be filed with the Agency Clerk of the State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation as follows: GIGI HOLDER, Agency Clerk, State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation, Post Office Box 8050 Tallahassee, FL 32314-8050, Email: Agency.

Clerk@flofr.com, Tel: (850) 410-9889, Fax: (850) 410-9663. A copy of your response should be sent to: Jenny Salvia, Assistant General Counsel, State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation, 1313 N. Tampa St., Suite 615, Tampa, FL 33602-3394, Tel: (813) 218-5308, Mo/ day, mo/day, mo/day, mo/day.

NOTICE OF SALE Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty.

Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid.

Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale.

2004 Saturn VIN# 1G8AG52FX4Z132029 1999 Pontiac VIN# 1G2JB1248X7572542 2000 Toyota VIN# 1NXBR12E1YZ369804 1998 Honda VIN# 1HGCG5651WA263076 1998 Honda VIN# 1HGCG565XWA068917 1997 Chevrolet VIN# 1GCCS14X9VK165352 2002 Ford VIN# 1FMZU72E12UC81133 To be sold at auction at 8:00 a.m. On April 15 2015, at 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale. Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE FOLLOWING TENANTS WILL BE SOLD FOR CASH TO SATISFY RENTAL LIENS IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTES, SELF STORAGE FACILITY ACT, SECTIONS 83.806 AND 83.807. CONTENTS MAY INCLUDE KITCHEN, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, BEDDING, TOYS, GAMES, PACKED CARTONS, FURNITURE, TOOLS, TRUCKS, CARS, ETC. THERE’S NO TITLE FOR VEHICLES SOLD AT LIEN SALE. OWNERS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO BID ON UNITS. LIEN SALE TO BE HELD ON THE PREMISES WEDNESDAY APRIL 15, 2015 AT LOCATIONS & TIMES INDICATED BELOW. VIEWING WILL BE AT THE TIME OF THE SALE ONLY. PERSONAL MINI STORAGE FORSYTH - 2875 FORSYTH RD. WINTER PARK, FL 32792 - AT 10:00AM:#604- William J. Rodriguez Cruz/Vanessa RodriguezGarcia/Marine Financial Florida Inc. VW vin#3VWBA21G5MM034609; 261-Juan C. Merckaert; #488-Gwendolyn C. Hays; #608 Juan C. Colon; #583-Rickey L. Johnson; #222-Jeremiah Arrendondo; #341-Lillian R. Agosto; #363-Barbara Hinkel; #208-Sadiyq Nagi Petersen; #407-Emoli Couche MICHIGAN MINI STORAGE - 200 W. MICHIGAN ST ORLANDO, FL 32806 - AT 11:00AM:#0062-Aaron Rich; #0135-Kevin Geil; #0144-Anne Anderson; #0216 Jamison Rayfield VIN:WELD1169D888, VIN:NOVIN0200589869.

PERSONAL MINI STORAGE LAKE FAIRVIEW - 4252 N ORANGE BLOSSOM TR. ORLANDO FL 32804 - AT 12:30PM:Felicia Sherman #0090, James Peak #0238, Millie Mcpherson # 0290, Ashley Pivovar #0331, Joaquin Avila # 0634, Kirsten Dorsey # 0859.

FAIRVIEW MINI STORAGE - 4211 N. N ORANGE BLOSSOM TR. ORLANDO FL 32804 - AT 1:00PM:Matthew Lewis D12.

PERSONAL MINI STORAGE WEST - 4600 OLD WINTER GARDEN RD. ORLANDO FL 32811 AT 2:00PM:#22-Phillip Francis, #23-Phillip Francis, #113-Davyonne Jones; #131-Kontisa Alonna Morris, #181-Crystal T Jones, #218-Isaac J Carnagie, #231-Cilphonse Salomon, #275-Anne M Holthusen, #279-Jerquila K Bell, #320-Dorcas L Shorter, #383-Byron Mack, #417-Tristan Darnell L Rivers #419-Earl Tyler, #462- Jennifer Denise Hair, #471-Lakeisha N Daniels, #543-Takaram E Baker; #590-Zandra Y Sanders, #593-Tien Lin Brown, #594-Janice Slones.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION FOR MONIES DUE ON STORAGE LOCKERS LOCATED AT UHAUL COMPANY FACILITIES. STORAGE LOCATIONS AND TIMES ARE LISTED BELOW. ALL GOODS SOLD ARE HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS, MISCELLANEOUS OR RECOVERED GOODS. ALL AUCTIONS ARE HELD TO SATISFY OWNER’S LIEN FOR RENT AND FEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTES, SELF STORAGE ACT, SECTIONS 83.806 AND 83.807, STARTS AT 8 am and RUNS CONTINUOUSLY. Uhaul Ctr Ocoee-11410 W. Colonial Dr-Ocoee04/15/15: 1200 Jason Mayoral, 1209 & 1213 David Decator, 1546 Marcia Faber, 2476 Tracy Hayden, 3009 Douglas Johnson Jr. Uhaul Stg Haines City-3307 Hwy 17-92 W-Haines City 04/15/15: F0620 Brian Mccants, F0669 Joshua Metzgar, F0670 Sabrina Matos, G0776 Cynthia Ford, G0802 James Michel, H0908 Christopher Gonzalez.

Uhaul Ctr Hunters Creek-13301 S. Orange Blossom Trail-Orlando 04/15/15: 1016 Tory Johnson, 1337 Fidel Laffita, 1344 Su Li, 1720 Steven R Shaff, 3118-20 John Brown, 3301 Karen Carlson.

Uhaul Stg Gatorland- 14561 Gatorland Dr-Orlando 04-15-15: 511 Antonio Guillen, 550 Kimberly Layne, 708 Arturo Palacios, 755 Laverne Tuthill, 835 Rueben Gonzalez, 968 Wanda Ramirez.

Public Notice Self Storage Zone /Powers Drive, 2650 N Powers Dr, Orlando, FL 32818 here by gives PUBLIC notice of the disposal for the default of lease agreement, pursuant to Florida statutes Section 83.801-83.809 on the following individuals: All items are House Hold Goods unless otherwise stated.

Unit 806 Venel St Jean Unit 110 Germanie Pierre Unit 724 Zakiyyah Magee Unit 210 Lloyd Jones Unit 201 Domingo Garcia Unit 737 Terry Cleveland Unit 642 Norquinta S Clark Unit 154 Nicholas Barnes Unit P005 Samuel Aboagye Black 2011 Nissan Rogue SL Vin # JN8AS5MT1BW569363 The contents of these units shall be disbursed on or there after The contents of these units shall be disbursed on or there after April 21, 2015 at 2:00 PM at a public auction located : Self Storage Zone / Powers Drive, 407-293-6005. 2650 N. Powers Drive, Orlando FL 32818.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 03/Turner/Pine Hills, CASE NUMBER:DP14-493 IN THE INTEREST OF: L.A.S., a male child, DOB: 11/03/2014 SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA To: Telisha Simmons, Address unknown, WHEREAS, a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child; you are hereby commanded to appear before Judge Thomas W. Turner, on April 15, 2015 at 9:45 a.m. at the Orange County Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 E. Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY/ADJUDICATORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD (OR CHILDREN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD (OR CHILDREN) NAMED IN THE PETITION. Pursuant to Florida Statute 39.802(4)(d), the mother/father are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity as defined in Section 63.032(3) Florida Statues, by including written notice in the summons served with this petition and at an advisory hearing if they are present for the hearing. Pleadings shall be copied to Stephanie Evans, Attorney for the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, 609 N. Powers Drive, Bldg. B, Suite 324, Orlando, Florida 32818, Stephanie.evans@ myflfamilies.com. WITNESS my hand at the Clerk of said Court and the Seal, this 18th day of March, 2015. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT (Court Seal) By: (Signed) Deputy Clerk.

Notice of Publication of Fictitious Name NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, The Great Commission Foundation of Campus Crusade for Christ, Inc., of 100 Lake Hart Drive - 3500, Orlando, FL 32832, pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, is hereby advertising the following fictitious name: The Cru Foundation It is the intent of the undersigned to register “The Cru Foundation” with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Dated: February 24, 2015

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Dale Mikhail Williams, of p.o. box 2141, Goldenrod, FL 32733 County of Seminole pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, is hereby advertising the following fictitious name: Victoria’s Elite Cleaning It is the intent of the undersigned to register “Victoria’s Elite Cleaning” with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Dated: 25 of March, 2015.

NOTICE OF SALE Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty.

Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid.

Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale.

1998 TOYOTA VIN# 4T1BF18B0WU263606 To be sold at auction at 8:00AM On APRIL 16, 2015, at 2500 n Forsyth rd, Orlando Fl 32807. Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, TEAM M & E LLC, of 3115 S Orlando Dr, Sanford, FL 32773 County of Seminole pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, is hereby advertising the following fictitious name: XO Event Center It is the intent of the undersigned to register “XO Event Center” with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Dated: 24 of March, 2015.

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